Prod & Man Test 1

Question 1

…those firms who take Anheuser-Busch’s products and move them along to the final consumer are positioned _____________

Answer 1

Downstream

Question 2

From Anheuser-Busch’s perspective, the firms whose inputs feed into its operations are positioned ______________

Answer 2

Upstream

Question 3

SCOR model stands for ________________ ________________ ____________ _____________ model.

Answer 3

Supply Chain Operations Reference

Question 4

Which of the following is an important trend in operations and supply chain management?

Answer 4

E-commerce

Question 5

Which of the following is a professional organization associated with operations and supply chain management?

Answer 5

APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society)

Question 6

Structural elements are ___________ resources, such as buildings, equipment, and information technology.

Answer 6

Tangible

Question 7

_____________ Strategies translate a business strategy into specific actions for functional areas, such as marketing, human resources, and finance.

Answer 7

Functional

Question 8

IBM’s ______________ ____________________________is arguably its ability to provide customers with integrated information solutions and the consulting services needed to make them work.

Answer 8

Core Competencies

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT one of the four performance dimensions particularly relevant to operations and supply chain activities?

Answer 9

Personality

Question 10

Order ___________ are performance dimensions that differentiate a company’s products and services from those of its competitors.

Answer 10

Winners

Question 11

_____________ - based layout is a layout where resources are arranged sequentially according to steps required to make a product.

Answer 11

Product

Question 12

_____________ manufacturing gets its name from the fact that items are moved through the different manufacturing steps in groups, or batches.

Answer 12

Batch

Question 13

_____________ Layout is a layout in which the resources are physically arranged according to the dominant flow of activities for the product family.

Answer 13

Cellular Layout

Question 14

ATO is an acronym for

Answer 14

Assemble-to-Order

Question 15

A service _____________ includes all the value-added physical and intangible activities that a service organization provides to the customer.

Answer 15

Package

Question 16

The supply chain is a network of manufacturers ad service providers that work together to create products and services needed y end users

Answer 16

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Question 17

Which of these statements about flow in a supply chain is best

Answer 17

Information, physical, and monetary flows both up and downstream

Question 18

“the planning, scheduling, and control of the activities that transform inputs into finished goods and services.

Answer 18

operations management

Question 19

A business is defined by its structural and infrastructural elements

Answer 19

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Question 20

Which of these us a major operations and supply chain infrastructural decision category

Answer 20

organization

Question 21

three structural decision categories

Answer 21

capacity, facility, and tech

Question 22

five infrastructural decision categories

Answer 22

organization, sourcing and purchasing process, planning/control, biz process and quality management, and prod/service development

Question 23

A product based layout arranges resources sequentially according to the steps required to make a product

Answer 23

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