1. What is the system view of operations Management? Identify the input, process and output for the following production systems.
a. Automobile manufacturing
b. A restaurant
2. Find out the 4-quarter moving average of the following time series representing the quarterly production of coffee is an Indian state.
Production (in tones)
| Year | Quarter-I | Quarter-II | Quarter-III | Quarter-=IV |
| 2007 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 17 |
| 2008 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 16 |
| 2009 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| 2010 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 19 |
| 2011 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 21 |
3. When to use product and process layouts? Give example of organizations that have predominantly product, process and fixed position layout.
4. Review Shigeo’s seven wastes. Which of these wastes are addressed by the following JIT techniques?
a. Pull production
b. Kanban
c. JIT purchasing
5. Discuss various vendor-rating techniques? Why an organisation should try to rate its vendors?
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