287. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) goes beyond the capabilities of MRP because it:
288. A just-in-time inventory system usually reduces costs for:
289. In a just-in-time inventory system, suppliers:
290. A firm would be most likely to employ statistical process control (SPC) if it wanted to:
291. A firm that is certified as meeting both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards has
demonstrated:
292. A small hospital in a suburb of a large metropolitan area wants to further develop its
operations and services in order to compete with other hospitals in the region. In analyzing the
criteria for making this happen, location is a primary concern. If it constructs additional floors, it
could increase the quality of a few services in its present location, but city regulations would
require more parking. As it looks for new property, which of the following criteria would not be an
important consideration for this facility?
293. As businesses strive for market expansion, companies add to their sales force, but opt to
eliminate sales offices across the nation and internationally. How are these firms able to
remotely operate a sales force that contributes toward increasing the bottom line?
294. Millennium, Inc., a leading producer of environmentally friendly cleaning agents, is
looking for a site for a new production facility. The company is mainly focusing on sites that are
close to major highways and rail hubs and are not too far from some major population centers.
This suggests that an important location consideration for Millennium is:
295. X-Sport Industries is a U.S.-based manufacturer of sporting goods. Recently, it has
decided to make a major push to sell its products in the European Union. In order to succeed in
this new market X-Sport will need to:
296. At Stevens Manufacturing workers are organized in teams that combine their efforts to
produce complex units of a final product. Stevens is using a facility layout known as a(n):
297. For the past two years, Mountain High Bike Company used suppliers from India, Japan,
and Malaysia to provide them with precision parts for its custom bikes. There was only one
problem: the quality of the parts from all locations lacked precision and consistency. Skilled
technicians complained that as many as three out of five parts had to be discarded due to
imperfections. The quality control manager convinced the owners to partner with a slightly
higher-priced company in Omaha, Nebraska, which utilized _________________ to test samples of
product components for deviations in quality and precision, prior to sending them to Mountain
High Bike Company. The bike company realized savings in both time and money.
298. Production manager Ryan McNealy wants to link all the divisions and subsidiaries of his
firm’s computerized functions into a single, integrated software program that uses a single
database. In order to achieve this goal, Ryan could make use of:
299. Superior Supplies’ largest customer recently implemented a just–in-time inventory
system. As a supplier of materials to this customer, Superior Supplies will:
300. Last week John got a call from his contact Eric at Alpine Telecomm in Switzerland, one of
his company’s largest international customers. As Eric put it, “This is a heads–up! Top
management is asking operations to review our vendors for ISO 14000 compliance.” John’s
company should prepare to demonstrate:
301. ___________ is a technique to analyze and sequence tasks involved in completing a
project, to estimate the time needed to complete each task, and to determine the minimum
amount of time needed to complete each project.
302. In a PERT network, the sequence of tasks that takes the longest to complete is called
the:
303. The purpose of a PERT network is:
304. A bar graph that shows what projects or tasks are in process and how much of each is
completed is called a(n):
305. Which of the following would be most helpful to a production manager who wanted to
determine the minimum time required to complete a proposed project?
306. The first step in the development of a PERT chart is:
307. The purpose of determining the critical path on a PERT network is to:
308. Both PERT diagrams and Gantt charts are useful to managers concerned with:
309. Becca works as a new-product development engineer for a company that makes solar
panels for residential and commercial purposes. Her company uses PERT network software for
all development projects. As she nears the final month of her timeline for completing a new
panel, Becca will focus on those activities that are:
310. A PERT network consists of activities linked by arrows. Suppose two of the activities on
the network are labeled “A” and “B.” An arrow from “A” to “B” indicates that: