14th Edition by William J Stevenson
Chapters 1 - 19
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Chapter 01 Introduction to Operations Management C
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hapter 02 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
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Chapter 03 Forecasting Ws Ws
Chapter 04 Product and Service Desig
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nChapter 04S Reliability
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Chapter 05 Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Servic
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esChapter 05S Decision Theory
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Chapter 06 Process Selection and Facility Layo
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utChapter 07 Work Design and Measurement C
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hapter 07S Learning Curves
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Chapter 08 Location Planning and Analysi
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sChapter 08S The Transportation Model
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Chapter 09 Management of Quality Chapt
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er 10 Quality Control
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Chapter 10S Acceptance Sampling
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Chapter 11 Aggregate Planning and Master Schedulin
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gChapter 12 MRP and ERP
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Chapter 13 Inventory Management
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s Chapter 14 JIT and Lean Operation
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sChapter 14S Maintenance
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Chapter 15 Supply Chain Managemen
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tChapter 16 Scheduling
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Chapter 17 Project Management
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,Chapter 18 Management of Waiting Line
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sChapter 19 Linear Programming
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Chapter 01 Introduction to Operations Management
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Student:
1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling a
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ndpromoting the organization's goods or services.
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2. Often, the collective success or failure of companies' operations functions will impact
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theability 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
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thetwo types of operations management strategies are used.
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4. Operations, marketing, and finance function independently of each other in m
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ostorganizations.
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5. The greater the degree of customer involvement, the more challenging the design a
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ndmanagement of operations.
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, 6. Goods producing organizations are not involved in service activiti
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7. Service operations require additional inventory because of the unpredictability of consum
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erdemand.
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8. The value of outputs is measured by the prices customers are willing to pay for good
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s orservices.
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9. The use of models will guarantee the best possible decisio
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10. People who work in the field of operations should have skills that include both knowle
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dgeand people skills.
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11. Assembly lines achieved productivity but at the expense of standard of livi
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12. The operations manager has primary responsibility for making operations system desi
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gndecisions, such as system capacity and location of facilities.
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True False
13. The word "technology" is used only to refer to "information technology".
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True False