Manufacturing part 3

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It is critical that a sustainable strategy meet the needs of shareholders and employees. It is also highly desirable that it preserves the environment.

False

Pricing for a service should primarily relate to the cost of providing the service and has little to do with capacity issues the service provider might face.

False

Process selection refers to the strategic decision of choosing the volume of output to produce in a manufacturing facility depending upon the way that facility produces.

False

Subcontracting is viewed as a risky strategy because the firm may lose control of product design and pricing.

False

The second step in managing a project is writing the Statement of Work.

False

The widespread adoption of computing technology has led to the virtual abandonment of simple cut-and-try charting and graphical methods to develop aggregate operations plans.

False

If all you knew about a production system was that total daily output was 400 units and the total labor necessary to produce the 400 units was 350 hours, what kind of productivity measure could you use to compute productivity?

Partial measure

A roller coaster ride in an amusement park employs which type of queuing system line structure?

Single channel, Single phase

The Aggregate Operations Planning variable "workforce level" refers to the number of workers needed to accomplish the planned production.

True

The term "electronic commerce" refers to the use of the internet as an essential element of business activity.

True

Yield management is the process of allocating the right type of capacity to the right type of customer at the right prices at the right time to maximize revenue or yield.

True

A process map shows the physical location of the various processes within a supply chain.

False

Activity-system maps depict the geographic reach of a company's business strategies.

False

Aggregate Planning Techniques is developed from the master schedule and the strategic capacity plan.

False

An input to the material requirements planning (MRP) system is an exception report.

False

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner.

False

In a practical sense, an infinite queue is one that includes every possible member of the served population.

False

Which of the following is an input file necessary to run an MRP system?

Bill of materials (BOM) file

You are looking at a chart that has the terms BCWS, BCWP, and AC indicating lines on the chart. What kind of chart are you looking at?

EVM chart

There are many applications of poka-yokes in service organizations. Which of the following is one of the three-T's used to classify poka-yokes?

Task

From an operational perspective yield management is least effective under which of the following circumstances?

The product can be kept to be sold when demand is stronger

A process can be effective without being efficient.

True

An order qualifier is a set of screening criteria that permits a firm's products to be considered as possible candidates for purchase.

True


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