What is your definition of operations management

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Question 1. What is your definition of Operations Management?

Question 2. Give examples and compare/contrast strategic, tactical, and operational decisions. How do they affect a customer's operations?

Question 3. What measures are used to evaluate supply chain efficiency? What are the inputs to those measurements?

Question 4. Compare and Contrast the Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock, and Hybrid process approaches described in your text.

Question 5. Discuss the cost of quality. Compare and contrast the cost of quality with the cost of not measuring quality. Define process variation. How can reducing process variation improve quality?

Question 6. Discuss why people at different levels of an organization have different definitions of capacity management? Discuss those definitions.

Question 7. Discuss some sources of forecasting error. What ways are there to measure error?

Question 8. The text states that a firm's operations strategy must be aligned and integrated with the corporate strategy. Why do you think this is the case? What do you think would happen if the two strategies were at odds?

Question 9. What are the elements of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)? How can a project schedule be developed from a WBS? What is the importance of the critical path?

Question 10. Define, compare, and contrast Pure, Functional, and Matrix structures. Who has control of project schedule and deliverables? Who has control of resources, the project manager or functional manager, or both?