All of this can add enormously to the amount or value of a product. A lot of products go through a series of production process. Since every industry knows how much profit could be made in the production process, they try to increase the amount of quality control. They are a lot of production processes used in Sainsbury’s to help add value to a product or service. One of the main objectives of Sainsbury’s apart from making profit is to satisfy customers, which is converting inputs to outputs. The few production processes used in Sainsbury’s today are:
Project production
Job production
Batch production
Line production
Continuous flow production
Project production
A project may involve assembling or bringing together a number of people and resources to accomplish a product. When a project is about to be carried the organisation has to do a lot research into whether or it will benefit the company. The organisation has to plan the tasks, carrying them out in a logical sequence, make sure all the steps in the project fit closely together, make sure the steps are successfully carried out all this operations are known as PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
Job production
In project production it involves large-scale project while this deals with mainly small scale. A lot of Sainsbury’s products are made within the premises. There are a number of advantages Sainsbury’s can gain from using job production. The Duties mainly carried out by employees require a lot of skill, knowledge and expertise; in this case cost will be low because the production is coming from within the organisation. Costs will also prove to be high because to find employees with such skills will be very hard, and employees with these kinds of skills will demand a large pay.
Batch production
This is where a number of goods or service is all produced in a batch. They don’t have to be for any specific customer but are made in specific quantities at regular intervals. It involves work moving from one stage of production to another. The benefit that batch production has on Sainsbury’s is that even though products are being produces compared with the other kinds of production it is still very flexible. The key feature of batch production is that every now and then production has to stop for in order to start the production process for another product. An example could be to lower prices of certain products for a period of time to attract potential pulse purchases.
Line production
This involves goods or services passing down a line of production. The production process is a repeating one, with identical products going through the same sequence of operations. It has a method of using undifferentiated strategy of marketing. Line production produces identical products. A disadvantage of this is that many customers want their purchase to be made different or distinctive in some way or the other.
Continuous flow production
This is just a step further than line production. It is a big advantage for Sainsbury’s to be able to mass-produce. It also involves producing products for up to 24 hrs a day, using automatic equipment in a standard way. Production is organised so that different operations can be organised, shortly after another, in a process circle. It flows from one to another, this usually happens when the production of the product is standardised and could also be made using line method.