MANUFACTURING AND NON –MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

MANUFACTURING AND NON –MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

The organisations can be divided in to:

1. Manufacturing organisations
2. Non-manufacturing organisations
The following are the differences between manufacturing organisations and nonmanufacturing
organisations:
1. Manufacturing organisation produces the goods that are tangible in nature.
On the other hand service organisations render service to the customers instead
of tangible products.
2. The products of manufacturing units can be stored in physical form. But the
products of non-manufacturing organisation cannot be stored.
3. In manufacturing organisation, mostof the customers have no direct contact
with the operations.On the other hand, in the caseservice organisations the
customers are present during the creation of the service.