Evaluate Ways of Reconciling Capacity and Demand in Either a Service or Manufacturing Organisation You Are Familiar with.

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The objective of strategic capacity planning is to provide an approach for determining the overall capacity level of labor-intensive resources.

Capacity planning is to be carried out keeping in mind future growth and expansion plans, market trends, sales forecasting etc. It is a simple task to plan the capacity in case of stable demand. But in practice the demand will be seldom stable. The fluctuation of demand creates problems regarding the procurement of resources to meet the customer demand.

To be discussed in this assignment is the Eskom dilemma. A comparison between a perfect competitor and a monopolist will be shown in terms of their characteristics, pricing strategies, profit maximization, and their cost structures. An analysis of why South Africa has load shedding, how it impacts on the country and a solution of choosing between a coal driven power station and a nuclear driven power station shall be provided. A brief discussion on the reason why Eskom’s tariff increases are higher than inflation each and every year or why they lead to high inflation, the cost-profit structure of a monopolist, as well as Eskom’s cost of production for power generation will be provided. Another issue up to be conversed is price

Freedman then talks about why there is so much energy poverty in Africa. In some places increasing economic growth and population growth have combined to overtake the supply of

Schroeder, Goldstein, and Rungtusanatham said “capacity can be measured in terms of output measures such as numbers of units produced, tons produced, and number of customers served over a specified period.” As organizations are built part of their discussion panel is to determine the amount of people they anticipate on serving.

Determining capacity is a very important of company day to day operations as it considers whether the amount of work that a company is putting out is capable of meeting supply and demand. Management must make correct decisions that consider product mix issues, whether or not processes and capacity can be improved without adding risky staffing or machinery investments, how to avoid bottleneck areas and whether quality is at expected consumer standards (Vonderembse & White, 2013).

The political and economical issues spread beyond the government and to the community in Zimbabwe. For 15 years prior, the economy is Zimbabwe had been slowly fading but after the recent election the unemployment rate rose to eighty percent (“Govt” 1, 2). The number for jobless people increased to a massive number of nearly 200,000 making the eleventh year high up to 3.33 million (“Bankruptcies” 1, 2). This made it extremely challenging for families to afford things like education, health care, and even housing. As a result, this forced people to turn to crime and corruption just to try and make a living. While the citizens were turning to crime, the government was wasting all it’s money for personal needs. It was also discovered that the government had been paying more than 40,000 to what was referred to as “ghost workers” appearing on their payroll (“Govt” 1, 2). As a result of this, Zimbabwe was part of a huge fraud situation with the Nigerian Deposit Insurance. They were accounted for seventy-four cents for all fraud counts (“Our” 1). Soon after this scandal, Zimbabwe had no choice but to declare bankruptcy making the country record, 1082 bankruptcies as of 2008 (“Bankruptcies” 1, 2). After the fraud situation the government tried to cover up by creating an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The government was interested in fixing

Imagine having all of your rights, land, and everything you have grown to know and love taken away from you. This happened when imperialism occurred in Africa in the 1800s and 1900s. Zimbabwe was a location that was greatly impacted by the process of imperialism. Overall, imperialism brought many positive and negative effects to Zimbabwe as well as other places around the world. The impact of imperialism on Zimbabwe had a negative effect overall because the continent was divided without regard to the groups the Africans had formed, the government was taken over by the British, and the Africans were treated as though they were inferior to the Europeans.

Capacity relates to soundness of mind and to an intelligent understanding and perception of one 's actions. It is the power either to create or to enter into

However, Iraq suffers a growing shortage of electrical energy because of an increase in demand (see Fig. 3). The electrical power generation stations have been failed to fulfil the demand of power because of numerous defects and limited production capabilities due to deterioration. The electricity consumption in 2009 was 52 billion kWh in Iraq. During the Gulf War; electricity infrastructure of Iraq was severely damaged, suffered from a lack of investment and available equipment while under sanctions, and suffered further following the invasion in 2003. Now Iraq requires more power gradually due to its rising population growth and demands. The Iraq’s population increased from 14 million in 1980 to 32 million in 2010 and it is expected to

Capacity in operations decisions is making sure that the process has the right amount of space and proper staffing to maintain the business

“John M. Grohol” who wrote an article “why reliance on technology a bad thing” Says that “Imagine a power outage. You know, the kind we had just a few years ago on our supposedly modern power grid. The kind that isn’t supposed to happen. The kind that brought an entire coast of our country grinding to a halt. But as our thirst for power increases and our infrastructure fails to keep pace with it (and it really is nowhere near to keeping pace with it), it is doubtful the U.S. has enough reserve electricity supplies”.

Capacity planning is a necessary function of an organization to ensure that the highest rate of output is reached through the current processes taking place within an organization. These strategically defined processes must have the ability to provide flexibility to meet future capacity demand, whether due to opportunity growth or adjustments to make decreases to maximize profits. “Capacity decisions related to a process need to be made in light of the role the process plays within the organization and the supply chain as a whole, because changing the capacity of a

First of all, renewable energy is essential to Elbawener 's future economic growth and prosperity in a carbon-constrained world. (Introduction of Renewable energy, CEFC, 2015) This is really a perfect thing for Elbawener. What’s more, renewable energy would help lower Elbawener 's and Australia 's carbon emissions, this is really good for the environment of