WILEY QUESTIONS ASSIGNMENT 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
RATED A+
All of the following are responsibilities of operations managers except:
a) managing inventories.
b) acquiring financial resources.
c) planning production.
d) scheduling production. - ANSWER✔✔ b) acquiring financial resources.
When purchasing a car, what might be order winners?
a- Price.
b- Quality.
c- Design.
d- All of the above. - ANSWER✔✔ d- All of the above.
Order winners are the competitive advantages such as quality, delivery speed,
reliability, product design, flexibility, and image that cause a firm's customers to
select that company's products or services. It is the main reason why customers
purchase a company's product.
The ratio of a firm's monthly output to the number of labour hours used in the same
month would be a measure of:
, a) labour productivity.
b) multifactor productivity.
c) capital productivity.
d) machine productivity. - ANSWER✔✔ a) labour productivity.
The production system that prizes flexibility over efficiency and quality over
quantity is known as:
A) craft production.
b) electronic commerce.
c) mass production.
d) lean production. - ANSWER✔✔ d) lean production.
Operations provides marketing with information on all except:
a) product or service availability.
b) order status.
c) personnel needs.
d) lead-time estimates. - ANSWER✔✔ c) personnel needs.
** these are done by Human resources
Policy deployment, the last of five steps in strategy formulation, translates
corporate strategy into:
a) action plans.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
RATED A+
All of the following are responsibilities of operations managers except:
a) managing inventories.
b) acquiring financial resources.
c) planning production.
d) scheduling production. - ANSWER✔✔ b) acquiring financial resources.
When purchasing a car, what might be order winners?
a- Price.
b- Quality.
c- Design.
d- All of the above. - ANSWER✔✔ d- All of the above.
Order winners are the competitive advantages such as quality, delivery speed,
reliability, product design, flexibility, and image that cause a firm's customers to
select that company's products or services. It is the main reason why customers
purchase a company's product.
The ratio of a firm's monthly output to the number of labour hours used in the same
month would be a measure of:
, a) labour productivity.
b) multifactor productivity.
c) capital productivity.
d) machine productivity. - ANSWER✔✔ a) labour productivity.
The production system that prizes flexibility over efficiency and quality over
quantity is known as:
A) craft production.
b) electronic commerce.
c) mass production.
d) lean production. - ANSWER✔✔ d) lean production.
Operations provides marketing with information on all except:
a) product or service availability.
b) order status.
c) personnel needs.
d) lead-time estimates. - ANSWER✔✔ c) personnel needs.
** these are done by Human resources
Policy deployment, the last of five steps in strategy formulation, translates
corporate strategy into:
a) action plans.
