Discuss your findings concerning Tours A and B, according to the topics listed below:
1) Identify key production planning considerations (which, when and how much of each to produce, methods of dealing with short/long term changes in capacity demand).
2) Identify potential bottlenecks (use process flow diagram in text) and discuss possible methods of breaking them.
3) Point out any special considerations, which should be accorded to managing the workforce.
4) Identify significant issues pertaining to materials management within the process (i.e. inventory management, supplier selection, etc.)
5) Discuss the significant aspects of quality control as they relate to this process.
6) How is this industry likely to be affected by technological change?
7) To what degree does vertical integration exist?