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How Manufacturers Are Organized

Question 2 • Career Explorations III

You produce a number of different products for a variety of customers. You are trying to establish an organizational structure that permits purchasing to work closely with team leaders and engineers so they can avoid excess inventory. You also want to be able to assign one engineer with a number of different products and also have the ability to shunt resources quickly from one product to another. Which type of organizational structure matches this description?

Answer
A
matrix
B
product
C
shared services
D
functional

Explanation

A matrix structure organizes work around products or projects while also maintaining functional departments, such as engineering and purchasing. This lets purchasing work directly with product teams, allows an engineer to support several products, and makes it easier to move resources between products. The matrix structure best matches these needs.

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