Manufacturing environment
1. Order production (made to orders, MTO) is a kind of can make a variety of products, but only maintain a small amount of inventory of manufacturing methods, ordering production enterprises are mainly concerned about production planning and control;
2. Order assembly (Assembly to order, ATO) is a special case of ordering production;
3. Special production (Engineer to Order,eto) is a project to organize production;
4. Stock production (made to Stock,mts) is produced before the order is accepted,
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The production and sales environment is restricted by two cycles, one is from the customer signed a sales contract, to the customer received the order of the product or the goods cycle, called the demand cycle (in D), also known as the customer delivery lead time, the other is from the design, production preparation to the customer received the goods so far, Known as the production cycle (expressed in P), the ratio of the two cycles is called p/d value, the smaller the P/D value, the stronger the competitiveness of the enterprise.