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1. What is Operations Management? - Correct Answer: the set of activities that create
value in the form of goods and services by transforming inputs into outputs
2. Marketing (Essential Function) - Correct Answer: generates demand
3. Finance/Accounting (Essential Function) - Correct Answer: creates the product
4. Supply Chain - Correct Answer: A global network of organizations and activities that
supply a firm with goods and services
5. Members of the Supply Chain - Correct Answer: collaborate to achieve high levels of
customer satisfaction, efficiency, and competitive advantage
6. Why Study Operations Management? - Correct Answer: 1. one of 3 major functions
of any organization, we want to study how people organize themselves for productive
enterprise
2. We want (and need) to know how goods and services are produced
3. We want to understand what operations managers do
4. costly part of an organization
7. What Do Operations Managers Do? - Correct Answer: planning, organizing, staffing,
leading, controlling
, 8. Strategic Operations Management Decisions - Base - Correct Answer: people,
product, process
9. Strategic Operations Management Decisions - Staff - Correct Answer: quality
management, inventory management, supply chain management
10. Strategic Operations Management Decision - Place - Correct Answer: location, layout
11. Strategic Operations Management Decision - Correct Answer: Scheduling and
Maintenance
12. Goods - Correct Answer: Manufacturers produce tangible products
13. Services - Correct Answer: Economic activities that typically produce an intangible
product
14. Productivity Challenge - Correct Answer: Ratio of outputs divided by inputs
15. Productivity - Correct Answer: Measure of process improvement
16. Single-Factor Productivity - Correct Answer: Output levels relative to single input
17. Total Factor Productivity - Correct Answer: Output achieved with given inputs
18. Quality - Correct Answer: Measurement problem: may change while inputs/outputs
constant