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Operations GCSE
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Business
11th Grade
02/17/2008

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Trial

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The initial testing of a product before starting full production
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Manufacturing

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A business in the secondary sector

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Job

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One off or unique production process

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Batch

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Making quantities of the same item, e.g. red or blue paint

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Transformation

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The change that takes place during the production process

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Production

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The process in which goods or services are produced

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Capacity

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The maximum output that a firm can produce given its existing resources

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Productivity

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The measure of outputs produced in relation to inputs used

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Inputs

 

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Land, capital, enterprise, labour are all types of this in the production process

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Sub Contracting

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Occurs when one organisation gets another to produce for it

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Adding Value

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The way in which a business makes their inputs worth more by the time they are sold

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Automation

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Where labour is replaced by machinery.

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