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Advertising revenue model - Correct answer Provides users with information on services and products and provides an opportunity for suppliers to advertise Affiliate revenue model - Correct answer Companies receive a referral fee for directing business to an affiliate Appraisal cost - Correct answer The cost associated with uncovering defects Automated order entry systems - Correct answer A method using telephone models to send digital orders to suppliers. Backwards integration - Correct answer Owning or controlling sources of raw materials and components. Benchmarking - Correct answer Studying other companies business practices for comparison. Bullwhip effect - Correct answer Inaccurate or distorted demand information created in the supply chain. Business to Business commerce - Correct answer Businesses buying and selling to other businesses. Business to consumer commerce - Correct answer Businesses selling to individual consumers. Cause and effect diagrams - Correct answer A chart that identifies potential causes of particular quality problems. Checklist - Correct answer A list of common defects and the number of observed occurrences of each. Conformance to specifications - Correct answer how well a product or service meets the targets and tolerances set by designers.
Continuous improvement - Correct answer A philosophy of never ending improvement. Control charts - Correct answer Charts used to evaluate whether a process is operating within expectations. Crossdocking - Correct answer Eliminates storage and order picking functions of a distribution warehouse. Customer defined quality - Correct answer an integrated effort designed to improve quality performance at every level of the organization. Deming Prize - Correct answer Japanese award for companies to recognize efforts in quality improvement. Distribution management - Correct answer Responsible for the movement of material from the manufacturer to the customer. Distribution warehouse - Correct answer Used for short term storage, consolidation, and product mixing. Distributor crossdocking - Correct answer the receiving and consolidating of inbound products from different vendors into a multi-SKU pallet. E-commerce - Correct answer Using the internet and web to do business. E-distributors - Correct answer Independently owned net marketplaces having catalogs representing thousands of suppliers and designed for spot purchases. E-purchasing - Correct answer Companies that connect onlone MRO suppliers to businesses that pay fees to join the market, usually for long term contractual purchasing. Early supplier involment (ESI) - Correct answer Involvement of critical suppliers in new product design. Electronic data interchange (EDI) - Correct answer A form of computer to computer communications that enables sharing business documents.
Internal failure costs - Correct answer costs associated with discovering poor quality product before it reaches customers. Intranets - Correct answer networks internal to the organization ISO 14000 - Correct answer Set of standards & certification focused on environmental responsiblity ISO 9000 - Correct answer Set of quality standards & certification indicating companies have met that standard. Kaizen - Correct answer Japanese term for continuous improvement through learning and problem solving. Logistics - Correct answer Obtaining, producing an distributing materials and products. Malcolm Baldridge Award - Correct answer Award for demonstrating quality excellence and establishing best practices. Manufacturing crossdocking - Correct answer receiving and consolidating inbound supplies and materials for JIT manufacturing. Net Marketplaces - Correct answer suppliers and buyers conduct trade in a single internet based environment. Outsourced - Correct answer Processes/activities completed by suppliers. Pareto Analysis - Correct answer A technique used to identify quality problems based on their degree of importance. Partnering - Correct answer A process of developing long term relationships with a supplier based on trust, shared vision, and shared information, and shared risk. Plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle - Correct answer a diagram that describes the actvities that need to be performed to incorporate continuous improvement.
Postponement - Correct answer Strategy shifts production differentiation closer to the consumer by postponing final configuration Prevention costs - Correct answer Costs associated with preventing poor quality/defects from occurring. Price and availability - Correct answer Current prices and whether the quantity is available when needed. Psychological criteria - Correct answer way of defining quality, focuses on judgement of what constitutes product or service excellence. Purchase order - Correct answer legal document committing to buy goods and providing details of purchase. Quality at the source - Correct answer best to uncover problems at source and correct it. Quality Circle - Correct answer Team of volunteer production workers and supervisors who meet regularly to solve quality issue. Quality function deployment (QFD) - Correct answer tool to translate preferences of the customer into specific technical requirements. Radio frequency identificaion (RFID) - Correct answer unpowered microchips used to transmit encoded info through antennae Reliability - Correct answer probability of part, product or services will perform as intended. Requisition request - Correct answer indicates the need for an item. Retail crossdocking - Correct answer sorting product from multiple vendors onto outbound trucks headed for specific stores. Robust design - Correct answer A design that results in a product that can perform over a wide range of conditions. Sales revenue model - Correct answer a means of selling goods, information, or services directly to consumers.
Transaction fee model - Correct answer A company receives a fee for executing a transaction Transportation crossdocking - Correct answer Consideration of LTL shipments to gain economics of scale. Value for price paid - Correct answer Quality defined in terms of consumer's perception of usefulness of service or product related to prices paid. Vertical integration - Correct answer A measure of how much of the supply chain is owned by the manufacturing company. Virtual private network (VPN) - Correct answer A private internet based communications environment that is used by the company, its suppliers, and its customers for day to day activities. Best Operating level - Correct answer the output volume that results in lowest average unit cost. Break even analysis - Correct answer used to compute the amount of goods that must be sold just to cover costs. Capacity - Correct answer maximum output rate that can be achieved by a facility. Capacity cushions - Correct answer additional capacity added to regular capacity requirements for greater flexibility. Capacity planning - Correct answer The process of establishing the output rate that can be achieved by a facility Capacity utilization - Correct answer Percentage measure of how well available capacity is being used. Decision tree - Correct answer Modeling tool used to evaluate independent decisions that must be made in sequence. Design capacity - Correct answer the maximum output rate that can be achieved under ideal conditions
Diseconomies of scale - Correct answer A condition in which the cost of each additional unit made increases. Economies of scale - Correct answer A condition in which the cost of each additional unit made decreases. Effective capacity - Correct answer maximum output rate under normal conditions, lower than design capacity. Expected value - Correct answer a weighted average of chance events, where each chance event is given a probability of occurrence. Factor rating - Correct answer a procedure that can be used to evaluate multiple alternative locations based on a number of selected factors. Focused factories - Correct answer Facilities that are small specialized and focused on narrow set of objectives. Globalization - Correct answer the process of locating facilities around the world. Load-distance model - Correct answer a procedure for evaluating location alternatives based on distance. Location analysis - Correct answer technique for determining location decisions Rectilinear distance. - Correct answer The shortest distance between two points measured by using only north-south and east-west movements Beliefs defining JIT philosophy - Correct answer Operations, simplicity, continuous improvement, visibility, and flexibility. Bottom-round management - Correct answer consensus management by committees or teams. Broad view of JIT - Correct answer philosophy that encompasses the entire organization
Respect for people - Correct answer An element of JIT that considers human resources as an essential part of the philosophy Setup costs - Correct answer Costs incurred when setting up production equipment Simplicity - Correct answer The simpler a solution the better it is. Single source suppliers - Correct answer Suppliers that supply an entire family of parts to a manufacturer. Small lot production - Correct answer The ability to produce small quantities of products Types of waste - Correct answer Material, energy, time and space Uniform plant loading - Correct answer A constant production plan for a facility with a given planning horizon. Visible - Correct answer Problems must be visible to be identified and solved. Waste - Correct answer Anything that does not add value Withdrawal Cards - Correct answer A Kanban card that authorizes withdrawal of material Automated order entry system - Correct answer A method using telephone models to send digital orders to suppliers Backward integration - Correct answer Owning or controlling the source of raw materials and components