Supply Chain Exam 4 Questions And Answers
__________ is the amount of time an individual activity in a network can be delayed without delaying the entire project. - Answer-Slack Time
/."Automatic placement and withdrawal of parts and products into and from designated places in a warehouse" de...
__________ is the amount of time an individual activity in a network can be delayed
without delaying the entire project. - Answer-Slack Time
/."Automatic placement and withdrawal of parts and products into and from designated
places in a warehouse" describes __________ technologies. - Answer-ASRS
/.A company has one computer technician who is responsible for repairs on the
company's 20 computers. As a computer breaks, the technician is called to make the
repair. If the repairperson is bust, the machine must wait to be repaired. This is an
example of: - Answer-A finite population system.
/.A crossover chart for process selection focuses on: - Answer-Fixed and Variable Costs
/.A job shop is an example of __________. - Answer-an intermittent process
/.A location decision for an appliance manufacturer would tend to have __________. -
Answer-A cost focus
/.A regional bookstore chain is about to build a distribution center that is centrally
located for its eight retail outlets. It will most likely employ which of the following tools of
analysis? - Answer-Center of Gravity Model
/.A system using an automated work cell controlled by electronic signals from a
common centralized computer facility is called __________. - Answer-a flexible
manufacturing system
/.AGV technology - Answer-is used only for material handling
are used specifically to move and handle materials during the production process.
/.Among the following choices, an operations manager might evaluate political risk of a
country most effectively by looking at which type of country ranking? - Answer-Rankings
based on corruption
/.An assembly line is an example of a __________. - Answer-repetitive process
/.Assumptions in a multiple server queuing model: - Answer-Arrivals come from an
infinite, or very large population.
Arrivals are Poisson distributed
, Arrivals are treated on a first-in, first-out basis and do not balk or renege.
Service times follow the exponential distribution.
/.Automation and standardization are techniques that are frequently associated with -
Answer-Mass Service
/.Bottleneck - Answer-Operation that is the limiting factor or constraint
A bottleneck has the lowest effective capacity of any operation in the system and thus
limits the system's output.
/.Bottleneck Time - Answer-The process time of the slowest workstation (Takes the
longest) in a production system.
/.Capacity decisions should be made on the basis of: - Answer-Building sustained
competitive advantage
Good financial returns
A coordinated plan
Integration into the company's strategy
/.Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) includes manufacturing systems that have: -
Answer-Computer aided design, direct numerical control machines, and material-
handling equipment controlled by automation.
/.Customer Feedback in process design is lower as: - Answer-The degree of
customization is lowered.
/.Customers enter the waiting line at a cafeteria's only cash register on a first-come,
first-serve basis. The arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution, while service times
follow an exponential distribution. If the average number of arrivals is 6 per minute and
the average rate of a single server is 10 per minute, what is the average number of
customers in the system? - Answer-1.5
/.Demographic analysis is more - Answer-appropriate for service firms.
/.Dummy activities__________ - Answer-are used when two activities have identical
starting and ending events.
/.Effective capacity is: - Answer-The capacity a firm expects to achieve, given the
current operating constraints.
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