Test Bank for Operations Management, 14th Edition by William J. Stevenson | Questions and Answers | Chapters 1–19

TEST BANK for Operations Management,
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14th Edition by William J Stevenson
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Chapters 1 - 19 jj jj jj

,Table of Contents
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Chapter 01 Introduction to Operations Management
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jj Chapter 02 Competitiveness, Strategy, and
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jj ProductivityChapter 03 Forecasting j jj jj




Chapter 04 Product and Service
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DesignChapter 04S Reliability
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Chapter 05 Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and
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jj ServicesChapter 05S Decision Theory
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Chapter 06 Process Selection and Facility
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LayoutChapter 07 Work Design and
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jj Measurement Chapter 07S Learning Curves jj jj jj jj




Chapter 08 Location Planning and
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jj AnalysisChapter 08S The Transportation
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jj Model Chapter 09 Management of Quality
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jj Chapter 10 Quality Control
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Chapter 10S Acceptance Sampling
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Chapter 11 Aggregate Planning and Master
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jj SchedulingChapter 12 MRP and ERP j jj jj jj jj




Chapter 13 Inventory Management
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jj Chapter 14 JIT and Lean jj jj jj jj




jj OperationsChapter 14S j jj




jj Maintenance
Chapter 15 Supply Chain jj jj jj




jj ManagementChapter 16 Scheduling j jj jj




Chapter 17 Project Management
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, Chapter 18 Management of Waiting
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LinesChapter 19 Linear Programming
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Chapter 01 Introduction to Operations Management jj jj jj jj jj




Student:


1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling
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andpromoting 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
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theability of a nation to compete with other nations.
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True False



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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True False



4. Operations, marketing, and finance function independently of each other in
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mostorganizations.
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True False



5. The greater the degree of customer involvement, the more challenging the design
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andmanagement of operations.
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True False

, 6. Goods producing organizations are not involved in service
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activities.True
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7. Service operations require additional inventory because of the unpredictability of
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consumerdemand.
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True False



8. The value of outputs is measured by the prices customers are willing to pay for goods
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orservices.
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True False



9. The use of models will guarantee the best possible
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decisions.True
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10. People who work in the field of operations should have skills that include both
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knowledgeand people skills.
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11. Assembly lines achieved productivity but at the expense of standard of
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living.True False
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12. The operations manager has primary responsibility for making operations system
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designdecisions, 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