Deck 14: Production Planning and Management

Question 1

------------------------------- management refers to the direction and control of the processes used by food and agribusiness firms to produce goods and services.

Answer 1

Operations

Question 2

------------------------------- purchase the output from the firm and their feedback to the rest of the system is essential.

Answer 2

Customers

Question 3

Two special problems inherent in the production of agricultural products that influence many of the decisions in operations management are ----------------and---------------.

Answer 3

seasonality perishability

Question 4

Competing for customers and market share using the dimension of time as a source of competitive advantage is called -------------------------------.

Question 5

------------------------------- can be defined as the dollars (or quantity) of output (goods and services) produced divided by the dollars (or quantity) of resources (materials, wages, equipment cost).

Question 6

Operations management for food and agribusiness firms can be broken down in what area(s)?

A) Production planning
B) Supply chain management
C) Finance
D) a and b

Question 7

The production planning includes

A) Production scheduling
B) Purchasing materials for production
C) Locating a plant
D) Aggregate production planning

Question 8

Frederick W. Taylor introduced the concept of

A) Scientific management
B) Time-based competition
C) HACCP
D) Hybrid layout

Question 9

The costs that are generated during the production and/or rework of defective parts and services are called

A) Fixed costs
B) Internal failure costs
C) External failure costs
D) Appraisal costs

Question 10

Factor(s) that affect plant location decisions include

A) Location of markets
B) Labor climate
C) Agglomeration
D) All of the above

Question 11

The _________________ plant layout arranges activities by function.

A) Process
B) Product
C) Hybrid
D) None of the above

Question 12

Inputs consist of capital, materials, information, and energy required to produce outputs, but not human resources.

Question 13

During the 1960s, computer simulations were developed, and the 1970s saw the introduction of a powerful materials management system called material requirements planning (MRP).

Question 14

Choosing which tasks humans will perform and which tasks machines will perform is called capital intensity.

Question 15

Job rotation allows operators to work different shifts.

Question 16

Horizontal integration is associated with owning some or all of the various steps that are taken to produce a product from start to finish.

Question 17

The study of the interaction between the human and the workstation, tools, and equipment is called ergonomics.

Question 18

The construction of large items such as farm buildings, silos, and stores would use a fixed position layout.

Question 19

The concept of bringing flexibility to production processes, or the focused factory, was first proposed by Wickham Skinner in the early 1970s.