Test Bank for Operations and Supply Chain Management: 2024 Release Evergreen by William J Stevenson and Thomas Kull. Full Chapters are included with Answers.
1 Introduction to Operations Management
2 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
3 Forecasting
4 Product and Service Design
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Test Bank for Operations and Supply Chain Management: 2024 Release Evergreen by
Stevenson, Kull
Answers Included ✅
Chapter 01 2024 Release Stevenson
1) Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling and
promoting the organization's goods or services.
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2) Often, the collective success or failure of companies' operations functions will impact the
ability of a nation to compete with other nations.
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3) Companies are either producing goods or delivering services. This means that only one of the
two types of operations management strategies are used.
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4) Operations, marketing, and finance function independently of each other in most
organizations.
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5) The greater the degree of customer involvement, the more challenging the design and
management of operations.
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6) Goods-producing organizations are not involved in service activities.
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,7) Service operations require additional inventory because of the unpredictability of consumer
demand.
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8) In for-profit organizations, the value of outputs is measured by the prices customers are
willing to pay for goods or services.
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9) The use of models will guarantee the best possible decisions.
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10) People who work in the field of operations should have skills that include both knowledge
and people skills.
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11) Assembly lines improved productivity by using interchangeable parts and craft production.
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12) The operations manager has primary responsibility for making operations system design
decisions, such as system capacity and location of facilities.
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13) The word "technology" is used only to refer to "information technology."
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,14) "Value added" by definition is always a positive number since "added" implies increases.
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15) Service often requires relatively greater labor content when compared to manufacturing.
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16) Measurement of productivity in service is more straightforward than in manufacturing since
it is not necessary to take into account the cost of materials.
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17) Specialized machinery or equipment is a common way of offering increased customization in
manufacturing or services without taking on additional labor costs.
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18) Most people encounter operations only in profit-making organizations.
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19) Service typically involves a much higher degree of customer contact than manufacturing.
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20) A systems approach emphasizes interrelationships among subsystems, but its main theme is
that the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
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, 21) The Pareto phenomenon is one of the most important and pervasive concepts that can be
applied at all levels of management.
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22) Operations managers, who usually use quantitative approaches, are not really concerned with
ethical decision making.
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23) The optimal solutions produced by quantitative techniques should always be evaluated in
terms of the larger framework.
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24) Managers should most often rely on quantitative techniques for important decisions since
quantitative approaches result in more accurate decisions.
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25) Many operations management decisions can be described as trade-offs.
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26) A systems approach means that we concentrate on efficiency within a subsystem and thereby
assure overall efficiency.
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27) Prior to the Industrial Revolution, goods were produced primarily by craftsmen or their
apprentices using custom-made parts.
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