Table 19.2: Major Control Types based on Timing
Major Control Types based on Timing
Stages of Production | Type of Control | Description | |
Input | Capital | Feed forward control | Inputs are monitored to ensure that they meet the standards necessary for the transformation process. |
Labor | |||
Raw materials | |||
Market information | |||
Equipment | |||
Transformation process | Planning | Concurrent control | Regulates ongoing activities that are a part of the transformation process to ensure that they conform to organizational standards. |
Organizing | |||
Staffing | |||
Leading | |||
Controlling | |||
Output | Goods | Feedback control | Exercised after a product or service has been produced to ensure that the final output meets quality standards and goals. |
Services | |||
Profits | |||
Waste materials | |||