First Exam Flashcards
1.What is wealth, and how is it created?
- the output of goods and services produced
- manufacturing or production, makes a society wealthier and creates a better standard of living
What is value added
- Value added: the amount by which the value of an article is increased at each stage of its production, exclusive of initial costs.
- -Value is added by transform resources into useful goods.
four major factors affecting operations management
- Gov- regulations, safety
- Economy- demand, shortages, and surplus
- Customer- price, quality, lead time, services, flexibility
- quality- eceed customers expectations
order qualifier
supplier must meet set minimum requirements to be considered a viable competitor in the marketplace
Order Winner
must have characteristics that encourage customers to choose its products and services over competitor
five primary manufacturing strategies
- Engineered to order
- made to order
- Configure to order
- Assemble to order
- Made to stock
What is a supply chain?
- the sequence of processes involved in the production and distribution of a commodity.
Describe five important factors in supply chains
- all activities and processes
- linking companies
- forming relationships among customer and suppliers
- it can contain intermidieries
- product and services flow to customer, information and demand flow from customer to supplier
What is the major way in which management plans and controls?
through the flow of materials; the right materials in the right quantities and at the right time.
What must manufacturing management do to manage a process or operation?
Managing the operation means planning for and controlling the resources used in the process: labor, capital and material
three main divisions of supply, production, and distribution systems
- Raw materials flow
- manufacturing company
- distributors
four objectives of a firm wishing to maximize profit?
- Provide best customer service.
- Provide lowest production costs
- Provide lowest inventory investment.
- Provide lowest distribution costs.
objective of marketing? who does is do it
maintain and increase revenue; therefore, it must provide the best customer service possible
- high inv.
- high csr
- good shipped fast
the objectives of finance? How can these objectives be met?
- must keep investment and costs low.
- reduce inv.
- decrease warehouses
- produce large quantities, and produce to order
what are the objectives of production?
- keep its operating costs as low as possible
- make long run productions
- maintain high raw material