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A firm that specializes in certain types of goods-producing activities, such as

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A firm that specializes in certain types of goods-producing activities, such as customized design, manufacturing, assembly, and packaging, and works for end-users is consider primarily a ____.
a. responsive supply chain
b. contract manufacturer
c. distribution center
d. vendor-managed inventory supplier
e. back-hold entrepreneurial supply chain vendor

A(n) ____ produces goods in advance of customer demand using a forecast of sales and moves them to points of sale where they are stored as finished goods inventory.
a. Responsive supply chain
b. Efficient supply chain
c. Push system
d. Pull system

A(n) ____ produces only what is needed at upstream stages in the supply chain in response to customer demand signals.
a. Responsive supply chain
b. Efficient supply chain
c. Push system
d. Pull system

Base upon your readings of the textbook and the two articles posted in Week Seven, which of the following is basically true regarding the history of quality management?
a. During the Industrial Revolution, workers on the shop floor began to take on increased responsibility for quality.
b. Six Sigma was developed in Japan as a cost reduction approach during the 1970s.
c. Deming's diagram of a value chain emphasized the importance of consumers and suppliers in supporting continuous quality improvement.
d. Beginning around 1948, Deming and Juran began educating top U.S. managers, which lead to the growth and development of quality management in the U.S.
e. Quality engineers in the Soviet Union developed their own version of quality management, which has been universally adopted in most countries in the world.

Dr. W. Edwards Deming defined quality as "fitness for use" and sought to improve quality by working within the system familiar to managers.
a. True
b. False

Explanation / Answer

A firm that specializes in certain types of goods-producing activities, such as customized design, manufacturing, assembly, and packaging, and works for end-users is consider primarily a ____.

a. responsive supply chain

b. contract manufacturer

c. distribution center

d. vendor-managed inventory supplier

e. back-hold entrepreneurial supply chain vendor

Option a points to the whole chain and not one entity so ruled out, b is a firm which caters a part of our manufacturing needs and has nothing to do with design, c is a site within our supply chain set up to aggregate and store the goods. VMI supplier is a vendor who keeps his goods at our site and we pull out as many pcs needed without hassles of a Purchase order everytime.

Option e is correct as it describes a vendor which does design, manufacturing, packaging etc for specific needs.

A(n) ____ produces goods in advance of customer demand using a forecast of sales and moves them to points of sale where they are stored as finished goods inventory.

a. Responsive supply chain

b. Efficient supply chain

c. Push system

d. Pull system

Option c is correct.

https://www.bayt.com/en/specialties/q/89205/what-is-the-difference-between-the-push-and-pull-model/

A(n) ____ produces only what is needed at upstream stages in the supply chain in response to customer demand signals.

a. Responsive supply chain

b. Efficient supply chain

c. Push system

d. Pull system

Option d is correct.

https://www.bayt.com/en/specialties/q/89205/what-is-the-difference-between-the-push-and-pull-model/

Base upon your readings of the textbook and the two articles posted in Week Seven, which of the following is basically true regarding the history of quality management?

a. During the Industrial Revolution, workers on the shop floor began to take on increased responsibility for quality.

b. Six Sigma was developed in Japan as a cost reduction approach during the 1970s.

c. Deming's diagram of a value chain emphasized the importance of consumers and suppliers in supporting continuous quality improvement.

d. Beginning around 1948, Deming and Juran began educating top U.S. managers, which lead to the growth and development of quality management in the U.S.

e. Quality engineers in the Soviet Union developed their own version of quality management, which has been universally adopted in most countries in the world.

Option a is wrong as there is no strong evidence of the same. Option b is tangential as six sigma was developed in Motorola (to be specific) and not primarily for cost cutting. Option d is only partially correct but they were not education US managers, rather themselves practicing and refining quality principles. Option e is also partially correct as Russians did developed their own version but it is not universally accepted.

Option c is the correct answer

http://www.dentalgrouppractice.com/demings-diagram.html

Dr. W. Edwards Deming defined quality as "fitness for use" and sought to improve quality by working within the system familiar to managers.

a. True

b. False

False, It propagates quality within and also across all the systems in the supply chain.

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