Prod & Man Test 1 Flashcards
…those firms who take Anheuser-Busch’s products and move them along to the final consumer are positioned _____________
Downstream
From Anheuser-Busch’s perspective, the firms whose inputs feed into its operations are positioned ______________
Upstream
SCOR model stands for ________________ ________________ ____________ _____________ model.
Supply Chain Operations Reference
Which of the following is an important trend in operations and supply chain management?
E-commerce
Which of the following is a professional organization associated with operations and supply chain management?
APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society)
Structural elements are ___________ resources, such as buildings, equipment, and information technology.
Tangible
_____________ Strategies translate a business strategy into specific actions for functional areas, such as marketing, human resources, and finance.
Functional
IBM’s ______________ ____________________________is arguably its ability to provide customers with integrated information solutions and the consulting services needed to make them work.
Core Competencies
Which of the following is NOT one of the four performance dimensions particularly relevant to operations and supply chain activities?
Personality
Order ___________ are performance dimensions that differentiate a company’s products and services from those of its competitors.
Winners
_____________ - based layout is a layout where resources are arranged sequentially according to steps required to make a product.
Product
_____________ manufacturing gets its name from the fact that items are moved through the different manufacturing steps in groups, or batches.
Batch
_____________ Layout is a layout in which the resources are physically arranged according to the dominant flow of activities for the product family.
Cellular Layout
ATO is an acronym for
Assemble-to-Order
A service _____________ includes all the value-added physical and intangible activities that a service organization provides to the customer.
Package
The supply chain is a network of manufacturers ad service providers that work together to create products and services needed y end users
T
Which of these statements about flow in a supply chain is best
Information, physical, and monetary flows both up and downstream
“the planning, scheduling, and control of the activities that transform inputs into finished goods and services.
operations management
A business is defined by its structural and infrastructural elements
T
Which of these us a major operations and supply chain infrastructural decision category
organization
three structural decision categories
capacity, facility, and tech
five infrastructural decision categories
organization, sourcing and purchasing process, planning/control, biz process and quality management, and prod/service development
A product based layout arranges resources sequentially according to the steps required to make a product
T
