1. Arranging the physical location for the building, workspace, and equipment is part of:
a) engineering design.
b) inventory management.
c) product layout.
d) facility layout.
e) assembly line development.
2. To facilitate operations planning, most firms use _____ to determine the kinds of goods and services to provide and the features they must possess.
a) total quality management
b) customization
c) standardization
d) a product layout
e) marketing research
3. _____ has put pressure on supply chain managers to improve speed and balance resources against competitive pressures.
a) Inventory control
b) Globalization
c) The economic order quantity (EOQ) model
d) Computer-assisted design (CAD)
e) Total quality management (TQM)
4. In _____, computers can direct machines to adapt to making different versions of similar operations.
a) supply chain management
b) flexible manufacturing
c) computer-assisted manufacturing
d) green manufacturing
e) just-in-time manufacturing
5. Which of the following products is manufactured through the process of customization?
a) Geysers
b) Engines
c) Dell laptops
d) Photocopy services
e) Toothbrushes