In mass production thinking, once you have decided to group all the similar types of people and processes together by department, the next question is how often should you move material or information between departments? Since you have organized your people and equipment by specialty, you must create another specialty, the material handling department or the planning department, to move material. That department is also measured by efficiency. The most efficient way to utilize a person moving material is to get that person to move the most material possible each trip. From the viewpoint of
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