ISOM Quiz Questions Exam 1 || with 100% Correct Answers.
A firm's ability to accelerate or decelerate their rate of product production or service delivery
would be an example of which of the following competitive priorities? correct answers
Flexibility
Environmental scanning is the process by which firms assess the impact of technologies resource
requirements, material usage, and waste on the natural environment. True/False? correct answers
False
Which of the following is considered to be a characteristic of service processes?
A. They are capital intensive in nature
B. Output can be inventoried easily
C. They have short response times
D. Their output is primarily physical in nature correct answers C. They have short response times
Multi-factor productivity is calculated by dividing the value of a firm's output by the value of
two or more possible inputs. True/False? correct answers True
The systematic design, direction, and control of processes that transform inputs into products and
services for internal, as well as external, customers is called:
A. Supply Chain Management
B. Operations Management
C. Manufacturing Management
D. Quality Management
E. None of the prior answers is correct correct answers B. Operation Management
A firm's ability to produce products or delivery services that meet design specifications on a
consistent basis would be an example of which of the following competitive priorities?
A. Cost
, B. Time
C. Quality
D. Flexibility correct answers C. Quality
Outputs of operational processes include products, services, and data. True/False? correct
answers False
Which of the following is considered to be a characteristic of manufacturing processes?
A. They require high levels of customer contact
B. Output often cannot be inventoried
C. They are labor intensive in nature
D. Quality is easily measured
E. None of the prior responses are valid manufacturing process characteristics correct answers D.
Quality is easily measured
Competitive priorities include the cost, quality, time, and flexibility dimensions that a process or
supply chain actually possesses and is able to deliver to customers. True/False? correct answers
False
Support processes include all of the following functional areas except?
A. Accounting
B. Management Information Systems
C. Marketing
D. Human Resources correct answers C. Marketing
A make-to-order strategy is used to produce a wide variety of products from relatively few
subassemblies and components after customer orders are received. True/False? correct answers
False
A firm's ability to accelerate or decelerate their rate of product production or service delivery
would be an example of which of the following competitive priorities? correct answers
Flexibility
Environmental scanning is the process by which firms assess the impact of technologies resource
requirements, material usage, and waste on the natural environment. True/False? correct answers
False
Which of the following is considered to be a characteristic of service processes?
A. They are capital intensive in nature
B. Output can be inventoried easily
C. They have short response times
D. Their output is primarily physical in nature correct answers C. They have short response times
Multi-factor productivity is calculated by dividing the value of a firm's output by the value of
two or more possible inputs. True/False? correct answers True
The systematic design, direction, and control of processes that transform inputs into products and
services for internal, as well as external, customers is called:
A. Supply Chain Management
B. Operations Management
C. Manufacturing Management
D. Quality Management
E. None of the prior answers is correct correct answers B. Operation Management
A firm's ability to produce products or delivery services that meet design specifications on a
consistent basis would be an example of which of the following competitive priorities?
A. Cost
, B. Time
C. Quality
D. Flexibility correct answers C. Quality
Outputs of operational processes include products, services, and data. True/False? correct
answers False
Which of the following is considered to be a characteristic of manufacturing processes?
A. They require high levels of customer contact
B. Output often cannot be inventoried
C. They are labor intensive in nature
D. Quality is easily measured
E. None of the prior responses are valid manufacturing process characteristics correct answers D.
Quality is easily measured
Competitive priorities include the cost, quality, time, and flexibility dimensions that a process or
supply chain actually possesses and is able to deliver to customers. True/False? correct answers
False
Support processes include all of the following functional areas except?
A. Accounting
B. Management Information Systems
C. Marketing
D. Human Resources correct answers C. Marketing
A make-to-order strategy is used to produce a wide variety of products from relatively few
subassemblies and components after customer orders are received. True/False? correct answers
False
