Operations & Supply Chain Management | Chapter 5 | Part 2 | MBA MCQs | OSM

Operations and Supply Chain Management MCQs

  

 

1. ……………………………. Is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in production of goods and services?
   1.   Quality control
   2.   Operations management
   3.   Maintenance dept
   4.   Marketing
2. Operations Management involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as few resources as needed and effective in terms of meeting ……………… requirement .
   1.   Top management
   2.   Money.
   3.   Customer
   4.   Line supervisor
3. Operation Management is concerned with managing the process that converts ……………….into …………..
   1.   bad, good
   2.   Quality, Super quality
   3.   better, best
   4.   Input, output
4. The highest level officers shape the ………………. and revise it over time
   1.   Strategy
   2.   Quality
   3.   Product
   4.   Process
5. Supply Chain is ………….dynamic as compared to operations management.
   1.   More
   2.   Equal
   3.   Less
   4.   More or less
6. Manufacturing management deals with decision making related to production process so that the resulting goods & services are produced according to specifications in the amounts & by the schedule demanded at minimum cost. This definition is given by
   1.   Edward Buffa
   2.   Gilbert.
   3.   F.W.Tayor
   4.   H.A.Harding
7. Manufacturing management is concerned with those processes which converts the input into outputs.
   Inputs are raw material, men, machine, methods and the outputs are finish goods and service.” This definition
   is given by
   1.   Edward Buffa.
   2.   Elton Mayo
   3.   H.A.Harding
   4.   F.W.Taylor
8. ………………….. management is the field concerned with managing and directing the physical and technical functions of a firm or organization, particularly those relating to development ,production and manufacturing.
   1.   Quality
   2.   Operations.
   3.   Maintenance
   4.   Materials
9. …………………….. integrates supply and demand management within and across companies.
   1.   Quality
   2.   Supply chain management
   3.   Operations
   4.   Marketing .
10. Supply chain management is an integrating function with primary responsibility of ……………… major business functions and business processes within and across companies into a cohesive and high –performing business model.
    1.   Linking
    2.   De-linking
    3.   Casting .
    4.   Welding
11. Many of the ………………. encountered in the supply chain between different companies that seek to maximize their revenue within their sphere of interest but may have little or no knowledge or interest in the remaining players in the supply chain .
    1.   decisions
    2.   exchanges
    3.   Stories
    4.   Blocks
12. The loosely coupled ,self organizing network of businesses that co-operates to provide products and service offerings has been called the ………………..
    1.   Extended Enterprise
    2.   SCM
    3.   Marketing management.
    4.   Operation management
13. Guaranteeing acceptable conditions in a global supply chain can be ……………….. Challenge.
    1.   easy
    2.   complex
    3.   common
    4.   simple
14. As part of their efforts to demonstrate ………………….. practices ,many large companies & global brands are integrating codes of conduct and guidelines into their corporate cultures and management systems
    1.   Ethical
    2.   Bad
    3.   Good
    4.   Mal-practice
15. Corporations are making demands on their suppliers ( facilitites,farms ,sub contracted services such as
    cleaning ,canteen ,security etc.) and verifying ,through ……………, that they are complying with the required
    standard
    1.   Social audits
    2.   People
    3.   Company
    4.   Director
16. The basic idea behind SCM is that companies and corporations involve themselves in a supply chain by ………………….. about market flucations and production capabilities.
    1.   Doing
    2.   Not exchanging information.
    3.   Working
    4.   Exchanging information
17. In the 1980’s ,the term Supply chain management (SCM) was developed to express the need to integrate the key business processes from the end user through original ……………..
    1.   Officers
    2.   Owners
    3.   Workers
    4.   Suppliers
18. If all relevant information is accessible to any relevant company, every company in the supply chain has the ability to help ……………… the entire supply chain rather than to sub optimize based on a local interest.
    1.   Optimize
    2.   each other.
    3.   Sub-optimize
    4.   other
19. In corpora ting SCM successfully leads to a new kind of competition on the global market ,where competition is no longer of company versus company but rather takes on a supply chain versus …………………………. Form.
    1.   Marketing
    2.   Quality.
    3.   supply chain
    4.   Operations
20. The Primary objective of SCM is to fulfill customer demands through the most efficient use of …………………….. , including distribution, capacity, inventory and labor.
    1.   railway
    2.   seaways.
    3.   resources
    4.   Road