TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F'
if the statement is false.
1) As a service business, the operations management
activities of an airline company have nothing in common with
the operations management activities within a bicycle
manufacturing company.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Operations managers are responsible for managing
activities and resources that produce goods and/or provide
services.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Effectiveness refers to achieving intended goals
whereas efficiency refers to minimizing cost and time.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Operations, marketing, and finance function
independently of each other in most organizations.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,5) The operations function exists only in firms that are
goods-oriented.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) Operations management pertains almost exclusively to
the management of manufacturing operations.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Value-added refers to the cost of the inputs required to
produce goods and services.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) As long as a product is ready in advance of when manufactured does not
customers demand it, the timing of when a product is influence the value-added.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Storing an item earlier than the scheduled delivery
date is an example of a value adding activity.
⊚ true ⊚ false
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, 10) Management information systems (MIS) are needs to effectively
concerned with providing management with the information it manage.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) Operations management involves both system design
and planning/control decisions.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) System design decisions have very little impact on
planning/control decisions.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) An example of an operations control decision is the
choice of location.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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