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Production Control: Process, Types and Best Practices

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Planning and scheduling production is just the starting point in manufacturing. Once the production line is in action, managers need to keep a close eye on what’s happening to ensure they’re meeting the production schedule and delivering goods on time to retailers. What Is Production Control? Learn more.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance. Even if you aren’t using a formal lifecycle or specific methodology, you’ll still be planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring tasks in order to meet objectives – that’s project management. Projects change the business. Operations run the business.

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Production vs. Manufacturing: Key Differences

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Production is a process that’s used to turn things into products or goods. Production is done through a sequence of actions called a production plan. You can see your whole production cycle on a visual timeline, create a production plan and link all four task dependencies and avoid costly bottlenecks. What Is Production?

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Why Identifying as a Project Business is Critical For Success

The Lazy Project Manager

Project Business is an industry just like Retail and Manufacturing because projects are their primary business function. For example, if we think of a Retail Business, it’s about reselling goods to consumers. Whatever it is, if you sell it to consumers, you are a Retail Business. It doesn’t matter what goods you sell.

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Free Schedule Template for Google Sheets: Manage Schedules Online

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But schedules can be used for other purposes, such as measuring the total hours your employees work each week for payroll processing or as a workload analysis tool. Then set a baseline and you’ll be able to track your planned progress and costs against your actual progress and cost to help you stay on schedule and meet your budget.

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Production Scheduling Basics: Creating a Production Schedule

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Production scheduling is part of the pipeline that starts with sourcing and planning. If you don’t have a plan, you’ll never get your goods to market on time. Then we’ll explain what to consider in production scheduling and explain how the process can benefit your projects. Is it the most important part? Every part is important!