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Course Mid-term
outline Assignment not submitted Due date: 2023-09-18, 23:59 IST.

1) Which of the following is NOT a primary function of operations management? 1 point

Week- 0
Welcome ()
Procurement
Marketing
Week 1:
Understandi Production
ng Quality control
Operations ()

Week 2: 2) Which of the following is a key element of supply chain management? 1 point
Analyzing
Capacity in Isolating suppliers
Operations () Reducing customer options
Increasing lead times
Week 3:
Supply Managing the flow of goods and services
Chain in
Operations ()
3) If an organisation has taken over a firm that supplies raw material, which of the 2 points
Mid Term following costs would reduce?
Quiz ()
Carrying cost
Quiz: Mid- Ordering cost
term
Both cost will be reduced
(assessment?
name=147) No change in any cost

SWAYAM
Feedback () 4) In a service firm, the following decisions are taken. What would be the impact of 3 points
such decisions on performance measures – Cost, Quality, Delivery and Flexibility,
Week 4:
Productivity
Improvement Decision 1 (D1): Training program for skill upgradation and Multiskilling of the workforce.
in Decision 2 (D2): Standard Operating Procedures deployed at key steps in the process.
Operations ()

D1– No change in quality; D2- Increase in quality;

D1 – Increase in Quality; D2- Increase in cost;
D1 – Decrease in delivery; D2- Increase in delivery;
D1 – Increase in quality; D2- Increase in Delivery;

5) Which option describes the following operating systems in the decreasing order of 2 points
complexity; (A – Organising a football tournament, B – Construction of an international airport, C
– Manufacturing of Papers Rolls of Standard Size, D – ATM Facility of a Bank)

B,D,C,A
B,C,A,D
B,A,C,D
C,A,D,B

6) The time taken for a potter to make a pot, starting from bringing the mud, loading it 2 points
onto the potter wheel, turning the wheel to shape the pot, drying and heat treating the pot is 6
hours. He starts working daily at 8 AM. Assume no stock at the beginning. Which of the following
statements is True ?

The time to deliver the first pot cannot be determined

Throughput time is equal to cycle time when the batch size is 1.
The second pot can be delivered at 2 PM if the batch size is greater than 1.
All the above

7) A manufacturing system has output rate of 10 units/hour. A process with capacity 3 points
of 10 units/hr, is increased to 20 units/hr, then which of the following is true?

Increase the output of the system to 20 units/hour

Increase the output of the system to at most 20 units/hour
There will definitely be an increase in the output of the system, but the quantity of
increase cannot be determined with the given data
There may or may not be an increase the output as it depending on the capacity of the
rest of the processes.

8) Operations process of which of the following items is different from others? 1 point

Ship Building
Building a Subway in a Metro
Satellites
Cell phone Manufacturing
 9) When the arrival rate and service rate of a system doubles, the queue length 1 point

Remains Constant
Doubles
Halves
Cannot be determined

10) Which of the following contributes to the bullwhip effect? 2 points

Many customers at the end of the supply chain

Many suppliers at the beginning of the supply chain
Many layers in the supply chain
All the above

11) In order to analyse the capacity of a sugar mill, which of the following is not a 1 point
necessary information?

The number of machine maintenance staff per shift

The number of security personnel guarding the establishment
The amount of sugar cane that can be crushed per hour by the crushing machine(s)
Both a and b

12) In order to design a supply chain, which of the following needs to be considered? 2 points

Customer profile
Supplier location
Product profile
(A) and (C) above

13) In a worker paced assembly line, if the demand is 30/hr and the sum of processes 3 points
time is 10 min, what is the minimum number of stations required to ensure a cycle time of 5 min?

3
4
5
6

14) A firm which was offering a standard product, has started offering different 2 points
variations. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct in this context?

Flow becomes complex

Delivery may get delayed
Inventory may decrease
 Options a and b

15) In designing an efficient supply chain, which of the following factors are important 1 point

High margin in the product

Stable demand pattern
Coordinate supply chain partners
Trendy items with high seasonality in sale

16) Which of the following products would need a responsive supply chain? 1 point

A wrist watch manufacturer

A paper product manufacturer
Detergent manufacturer
All the above

17) Which of the following activities does not come under the purview of operations 2 points
management?

Plan of material flow in the manufacturing system

Estimating the Delivery schedule of the orders
Deciding on the number of variations of a product that should be launched in the markeT
None of the above

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