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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 7 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 7 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 Process strategy - ANSWER An organization's approach to transform resources into goods and services. This is a critical concept for this course. Key operations management decision areas - ANSWER Service & Product Design Quality Management Process & Capacity Design Location Layout Design Human Resources & Job Design Supply Chain Management Inventory, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) & Just -In-Time (JIT) Intermediate and Short -Term Scheduling Maintenance Process -oriented ("functional") layout - ANSWER Organized by function Steps completed by moving product from station to station in required order Advantages of Process -oriented layout - ANSWER Flexibility Customization Disadvantages of Process -oriented layout - ANSWER Higher cost per unit Higher skilled, high cost employees Transport/wait time between departments Less consistency across products or services Product -oriented layout - ANSWER -Provides resources in a fixed sequence -Matches the sequence of steps required to produce a product or service -Common in high -volume manufacturing Advantages of Product -oriented layout - ANSWER Efficient production of standardized goods and services High processing speed Low cost per unit Disadvantages of Product -oriented layout - ANSWER Lack of flexibility or customization Employee boredom/ dissatisfaction Quality problems Repetitive/Work cell layouts - ANSWER Mix of product and process layouts Create "families" of products with similar process requirements "Cell" contains all resources needed for family Advantages of Work cell layouts - ANSWER Flexibility greater than product -oriented layout Less costly than process -oriented layout Less material transport/wait Fewer changeovers Disadvantages of Work cell layouts - ANSWER Duplication of resources Mass customization requires - ANSWER Imaginative modularization Powerful scheduling Rapid throughputThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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