Materials Planning; Director of manufacturing to whom all manufacturing supervisors report, feels like he always gets brunt of mistakes by other departments. He is hoping you will be able to answer his and his supervisor's endless challenges. He asked you to visit for lunch meeting and explain what supervisors might expect to be different for them. He is supposing they will have much easier job because everyone else will do better job before him.
Explain the following specific points:
Write down typical manufacturing supervisors' challenges, often created due to no fault of their own?
Under newer, nontraditional manufacturing and operations methods, how can these problems reduce?