Week 3 Revision Quiz

What is the definition of capacity?

• The plant and equipment needed to carry out operations

• The amount the organisation can produce under normal circumstances

• Is developing detailed specifications of the physical facilities as well as human skills and effort required to produce the desired volume.

•Which of the following is NOT a day-to-day decision of an operations manager?

• What are the stock levels that need to be maintained?

• How will the production processes be scheduled?

• What type of layout is required for the process?

• What type of maintenance is required?

• None of the above, they are all decisions

The order of the product development stages is:

• Prototype development, testing, exploring ideas, rough screening and business analysis

• Business analysis, exploring ideas, prototype development, rough screening and testing

• Exploring ideas, rough screening, business analysis, prototype and testing

• Rough screening, business analysis, testing, prototype development and exploring ideas.

The continuum of goods and services illustrates how businesses can purely make products or purely services or have a mix of products and services.

• True

• False

Storage facility, trucks, drivers, office staff, computers and power/fuel are all forms of inputs for a freight service.

• False
• True

An example of project is?

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Which TWO below is an example of batch production?

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What is the meaning of efficiency?

• Achievement of goals and objectives

• Offering products or services are better than competitors' offerings

• To what degree has the business optimized its allocation of resources to achieve goal and objectives.

• Ability to produce given the people, process and technology a business has to work with.

What is the meaning of capacity?

• The amount a business can produce under normal circumstances.

• The amount of outputs produced compared to the inputs utilized.

• One's ability to work towards a goal.

Which business functional area involves the planning, organizing, leading and controlling all the resources needed to produce a business's goods and services?

• Marketing

• Finance

• Operations

• Human Resources