Operations & Supply Chain Management | Chapter 1 | Part 2 | MBA MCQs | OSM

Operations and Supply Chain Management MCQs

  

 

1. …………………….. Management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing and
   controlling the process of production and redesigning busssiness operations in the production of goods or
   services.
   1.   Quality
   2.   design.
   3.   Operations
   4.   Supply Chain
2. A ………………………….. Is the network of organizations that are involved through upstream and downstream
   linkages in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of products and services in the
   hands of ultimate customers? It is also called as a value chain.
   1.   Flow
   2.   Capacity Plan
   3.   Process
   4.   Supply Chain
3. ………………….. Indicates the quantity of products produced in a manufacturing system.
   1.   Variety
   2.   Flow
   3.   Volume
   4.   Capacity
4. ………………… refers to the number of subcategories of products and variants of each product produced in a
   manufacturing system.
   1.   Variety
   2.   Flow
   3.   Volume
   4.   Capacity
5. A ………………. Flow system is characterized by a streamlined flow of products in the operating system.
   1.   Continuous
   2.   Gravity
   3.   Jumbled
   4.   Intermittent
6. The ……………. production system in the discrete manufacturing industry is an example of continuous and
   streamlined flow in the manufacturing system
   1.   assemble to order
   2.   Mass
   3.   Job
   4.   batch
7. ……………………. Production is the method pioneered by Henry Ford for his Model T car, and the efficicies he
   gained enabled him to produce large numbers of cars at low cost.
   1.   Flow
   2.   Batch
   3.   Mass
   4.   Job
8. Designing operations system includes making choices with respect to:
   1.   Technology
   2.   All above
   3.   Capacity
   4.   Location
9. Which of the following aspect are not dealt with by an operation manager?
   1.   How much capacity is
      needed in the planning horizon?
   2.   What layout is best for the manufacture of company’s product?
   3.   How
      to motivate employee
   4.   which products /services should be offered?
10. Operations management is applicable --
    1.   to manufacturing as well as service sectors
    2.   Mostly to manufacturing sector
    3.   Mostly to service sector.
    4.   Exclusively to service sector
11. Which of the following is not a typical supply chain member?
    1.   customer
    2.   Retailers creditor
    3.   Supplier
    4.   Producer
12. Which of the following is not a typical a typical attributes of goods-
    1.   Quality aspect are difficult to measure
    2.   Manufacture processes are difficult to automate?
    3.   Output can be inventoried
    4.   Goods can be resold
13. ” Conformance to specification “is a notion used in -
    1.   R&D
    2.   Quality.
    3.   Supply Chain
    4.   logistics
14. Production Planning & Control is relatively simple in -
    1.   Jobbing production
    2.   Mass & flow production
    3.   Project production.
    4.   Batch production
15. A garage to repair motor cycle is a typical example of ……
    1.   Project
    2.   Batch
    3.   Jobbing
    4.   None of above
16. Productivity is difficult to be improved in service sector because the work is -
    1.   typically labor intensive
    2.   difficult to measure
    3.   Often difficult to automate
    4.   all of the above.
17. Current trends in operations management include all of the following except -
    1.   Mass production
    2.   Just-in- time
       performance
    3.   Rapid product development
    4.   Empowered employees.
18. Operation management is a ……………….. Process
    1.   Translation
    2.   Transformation
    3.   Transition.
    4.   Transaction
19. The Just in time philosophy was developed at which automaker?
    1.   Nissan
    2.   Toyota
    3.   Dotson
    4.   Honda
20. Which of the following are not characteristics of service provider operations?
    1.   Easy measurement of quality
    2.   labor intensive
    3.   High customer contacts
    4.   All of the above.