Operations Management,14th Edition
by William Stevenson Chapters 1 - 19
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Chapter 01 Introduction to Operations Management Chap
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ter 02 Competitiveness, Strategy, and ProductivityChapte
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r 03 Forecasting
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Chapter 04 Product and Service DesignC uh uh uh uh uh hu
hapter 04S Reliability uh uh
Chapter 05 Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and ServicesCh
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apter 05S Decision Theory uh uh uh
Chapter 06 Process Selection and Facility LayoutChuh uh uh uh uh uh hu
apter 07 Work Design and Measurement Chapter
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07S Learning Curves uh uh
Chapter 08 Location Planning and AnalysisCh uh uh uh uh uh hu
apter 08S The Transportation Model Chapter
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uh 09 Management of Quality Chapter 10 Qua
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lity Control
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Chapter 10S Acceptance Sampling uh uh uh
Chapter 11 Aggregate Planning and Master SchedulingC
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hapter 12 MRP and ERP uh uh uh uh
Chapter 13 Inventory Management C uh uh uh uh
hapter 14 JIT and Lean OperationsCh uh uh uh uh uh hu
apter 14S Maintenance uh uh
Chapter 15 Supply Chain Management uh uh uh uh hu
Chapter 16 Scheduling uh uh
Chapter 17 Project Management uh uh uh
, Chapter 18 Management of Waiting LinesC
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hapter 19 Linear Programming
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Chapter 01 Introduction to Operations Management uh uh uh uh uh
Student:
1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling andpro
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moting the organization's goods or services.
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True False
2. Often, the collective success or failure of companies' operations functions will impact theability
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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 thetwo ty
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pes of operations management strategies are used.
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True False
4. Operations, marketing, and finance function independently of each other in mostorg
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anizations.
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5. The greater the degree of customer involvement, the more challenging the design andman
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agement of operations. uh uh
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, 6. Goods producing organizations are not involved in service activities.Tru
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e False
7. Service operations require additional inventory because of the unpredictability of consumerde
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mand.
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8. The value of outputs is measured by the prices customers are willing to pay for goods orservic
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es.
True False
9. The use of models will guarantee the best possible decisions.Tru
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e False
10. People who work in the field of operations should have skills that include both knowledgeand p
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eople skills.
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11. Assembly lines achieved productivity but at the expense of standard of living.True
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False
12. The operations manager has primary responsibility for making operations system designdeci
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sions, 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