UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

Semester Spring 2020

Course Code: MGT-407 Course Title: Production Operations Management

Time Allowed: 120Minutes Marks: 50

Name: ----------------------------------- Roll #: -----------------------------------------

Attempt all questions.(All questions carry equal marks) 2.5*20=50

Question No. 1. Suppose you are the plant manager of the Steel Mill and you start a new
plant in another city than how you can formulate a Location Strategy, and how you can
control them?
Question N0.2. If you are the Project Manager of the company in textile Mill, and you
assign a new Project, than which kind of problems face in managing a project, Support your
argument with facts and figures?
Question No.3. Suppose you are the Production Incharge of the company than how would
you deal with conflict between two team members? Give your point of view with examples?
Question No.4.What do you think the biggest challenges you’ll face will be from a product
management perspective?
Question No.5 Do you think that supply chain approach to manage the movement of raw
material into an organization? And also discuss supply chain strategies which are helped the
best survive?
Question No.6. What do you think about Maintenance is essential for Production operation
System, and how you can improved total availability of the plant discuss by various means?
Support your argument with facts and figures?
Question No.7. What do you think about material management is affecting the flow of
material? And also discuss about Integrated Material Management which is essential for
Production operation Management? Support your argument?
Question No.8.Do you think that material management maintain the quality of both
incoming and outgoing material? Discuss.

Question No.9.What do you think about that bringing things to good working condition,
maintenance is essential or not? Discuss.

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Question No.10. If you are the Production Manager of the company than how would you
address a morale issue within your company? Explain.

Question No.11. Do you think that Maintenance of facilities and equipment in good working
is essential to achieve specific level and reliability of the company?
Question No.12.Suppose if you are the operation manager in HBL Bank, than how would
you monitor the performance of your staff?

Question No.13.What are the most important skills of Project Manager and why?

Question No.14. Do you think that Operation Strategy approach align people, process,
technology or not? Discuss.

Question No.15.When you are working in the Production plant than what is your strategy for
working with an underperforming team member?

Question No.16.Describe a time when you found it difficult to get a team to accept your
ideas or agree to your direction?

Question No.17.If you are working on Production Plant, than how did you reduce the
downtime and increased the Production?

Question.No.18. Do you think that Benchmarking can be applied to any business or process
or function a range of research techniques is required? Is it essential or not?

Question.No.19.How do you plan various shifts and daily production in textile sector?
Discuss.

Question .No.20.How did you reduce the Cycle Time of machines to increase the
Production?

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