Chapter 9 quiz from Understanding Business text book.
Grown much more rapidly than the manufacturing sector
Become the low-wage sector of the U.S. economy
Achieved extremely high productivity gains according to government reports
Focused less on quality and more on reducing costs of production
Enable the firm to maintain a continuous production run
Help customers find and buy things
Allow mass production techniques to be utilized efficiently
Facilitate a centralized decision-making process
Consolidated process layout
Continuous flow layout
Modular layout
Assembly team layout
Simplify the quality control process by taking samples at the end of the production process rather than examining every unit of output produced
Eliminate the expenses incurred by the Deming Cycle
Redefine quality control on the basis of customer needs
Make sue products meet quality standards all along the production process
Logistics management
Resource engineering
Supply chain management
Operations management
Give much more precise cost estimates
Find the critical path and compute its length
Monitor processes in multiple firms at the same time
Handle data about more than one product at the same time
An analytic production system
Process manufacturing
An assembly process
A symbiotic process
Keep inventories of finished goods as high as possible
Produce goods and services with less of everything compared to mass production
Produce a very limited variety of goods
Become more self sufficient by producing major components rather than buying them
Deliver materials and parts in large quantities only a few times a year
Enjoy much lower delivery costs
Have a great deal of flexibility in determining when to make deliveries
Become more like a department in the producing firm rather than a separate business
Identify the sequence of tasks that takes the longest to complete
Estimate a payment schedule so that a budget can be established
Find the sequence of events that is the most expensive to complete
Establish a delivery schedule for a just-in-time inventory control program
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