Manufacturing Operations:
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Manufacturing operations refer to the process of bringing together man, machine, and material to create a physical product. It oversees all aspects of the supply chain, including gathering client needs, sourcing raw materials, assigning resources, scheduling manufacturing, monitoring inventories, and delivering finished goods to customers.
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Process and discrete manufacturing are the two types of manufacturing operations. Process manufacturing is a production process that follows a set of stages or a formula to generate things. Individually finished objects that are unique from one another are the focus of discrete production.
Service Operations:
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Services are non-physical, intangible goods that are exchanged for money by one party to another. Customer happiness is the goal of service operations. A large number of people are employed in service activities including professional service teams, customer support teams, and customer experience teams.
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Manufacturing operations are concerned with manufacturing things and keeping them in a warehouse before delivering them to clients, whereas service-providing operations are concerned with allowing simultaneous production and consumption of services.