In: Operations Management
The major problem in developing countries is to bring gang size
down to that cost-effective
level. Succinctly explain three (3) ways by which excess labour can
be reduced.
Labour cost is one of the significant parts of the
organizational balance sheets. And in the developing countries, the
companies are staffed more with the labour compared to the
developed companies. The organization also needs extra expenses on
their training and any risk assessment. This is why many
organizations are now approaching several ways for cost reduction
with strategy and balancing the resourcing as well as cost
controls. The main three ways for reducing the excess labour are as
followed:
Lean production- it refers to an approach used by the management
for cutting out cost without affecting the quality of the products.
It reduces the non-value-added operation within the production. Its
effective application doubles productivity by reducing the
inventory and cutting production times, and a large unit of
products are manufactured.
Technology implementation- Technological implementation, such as
automation could do the work of human labour more efficiently and
effectively. A system such as automated assembly, automated picking
of components for automated assembly, and the automated inspection
would reduce the labour cost in the production process
Eliminating the over scheduling- Over scheduling is one of the
major sources of labour cost in manufacturing; the company
manufacture products on the expectation that requires a large
number of workforce. The company could use predictive scheduling
software that optimizes the employees scheduling efforts with
sophisticated algorithms.
In addition to this, by standardization, utilizing the contractual
or part-time labour, and the product design development would help
the company in reducing the labour cost to a large extent.