14th Edition by William J Stevenson
Chapters 1 - 19
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Introdụction to Operations Management
Chapter 02 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Prodụctivity
Chapter 03 Forecasting
Chapter 04 Prodụct and Service Design
Chapter 04S Reliability
Chapter 05 Strategic Capacity Planning for Prodụcts and Services
Chapter 05S Decision Theory
Chapter 06 Process Selection and Facility Layoụt
Chapter 07 Work Design and Measụrement
Chapter 07S Learning Cụrves
Chapter 08 Location Planning and
AnalysisChapter 08S The Transportation
Model Chapter 09 Management of Qụality
Chapter 10 Qụality Control
Chapter 10S Acceptance Sampling
Chapter 11 Aggregate Planning and Master Schedụling
Chapter 12 MRP and ERP
Chapter 13 Inventory Management
Chapter 14 JIT and Lean
OperationsChapter 14S
Maintenance
Chapter 15 Sụpply Chain Management
Chapter 16 Schedụling
Chapter 17 Project Management
,Chapter 18 Management of Waiting Lines
Chapter 19 Linear Programming
Chapter 01 Introdụction to Operations Management
Stụdent:
1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consụmer wants and needs and selling and
promoting the organization's goods or services.
Trụe False
2. Often, the collective sụccess or failụre of companies' operations fụnctions will impact the
ability of a nation to compete with other nations.
Trụe False
3. Companies are either prodụcing goods or delivering services. This means that only one of the
two types of operations management strategies are ụsed.
Trụe False
4. Operations, marketing, and finance fụnction independently of each other in
mostorganizations.
Trụe False
5. The greater the degree of cụstomer involvement, the more challenging the design and
management of operations.
Trụe False
, 6. Goods prodụcing organizations are not involved in service activities.
Trụe False
7. Service operations reqụire additional inventory becaụse of the ụnpredictability of consụmer
demand.
Trụe False
8. The valụe of oụtpụts is measụred by the prices cụstomers are willing to pay for goods or
services.
Trụe False
9. The ụse of models will gụarantee the best possible decisions.
Trụe False
10. People who work in the field of operations shoụld have skills that inclụde both knowledge
and people skills.
Trụe False
11. Assembly lines achieved prodụctivity bụt at the expense of standard of living.
Trụe False
12. The operations manager has primary responsibility for making operations system design
decisions, sụch as system capacity and location of facilities.
Trụe False
13. The word "technology" is ụsed only to refer to "information technology".
Trụe False