Processes

Manage production

How manage production are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

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Manage production — illustrated

The bottom line

Only about 15% of Manage production is information work today — the rest is physical, and moves slowly. The exposure is concentrated in the back office: the books, the paperwork, the scheduling, the marketing.

Why: Lacking populated child occupations, I rely entirely on the LENS prior and the process name 'Manage production'. The core value-producing work of production processes is the creation of physical goods, which inherently requires physical human or mechanical execution. Because AI can only touch the orchestration layer and not the physical value step, this focus sits firmly in the physical band.

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Business-as-Code

Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.

Manage production sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Manage production inherits.

Where Manage production sits

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How the work flows

Trigger: A finalized production plan or inventory replenishment signal authorizes the manufacturing, assembly, or preparation of retail goods.

  1. Receive production orders and schedules
  2. Stage required raw materials and packaging
  3. Execute product manufacturing or assembly operations
  4. Monitor equipment performance and labor allocation
  5. Perform in-line and final quality inspections
  6. Transfer finished goods to retail inventory

Outcome: Finished retail products are manufactured, pass quality inspections, and are transferred to inventory for distribution or direct sale.

Measured by

Production Schedule AdherenceFirst-Pass YieldUnit Production CostCapacity Utilization