Sm Quiz 1

Which of the following most accurately describes your company 's plant operations? | | | The company makes most all of its footwear materials and components in-house and uses 25-person assembly lines to make branded shoes at the rate of 5000 pairs per week. | | | Branded production is done during regular time and private-label footwear is produced only during overtime. | | | All footwear production teams must go through 40 hours of best practices training annually. | | | Standard and superior materials are sourced from outside suppliers at prices that vary according to global demand-supply conditions; the company 's production workers are compensated on the basis of both base pay and incentive payments per pair produced. | | | Workers are organized into 3-person teams; each team has the capability to make 5,000 pairs annually; teams are compensated at the rate of $10 per pair produced. | The company 's shipments of newly-produced branded and private-label footwear from its plants to its regional distribution centers are subject to | | | any applicable import tariffs and exchange rate adjustments. | | | export fees equal to 5% of the manufacturing costs of the pairs shipped and exchange rate shifts of as high as 10%. | | | 2-million pair import quotas on the part of the geographic regions to which pairs are shipped and exchange rate shifts of as high as 10%. | | | shipping charges of $2 per pair on all pairs shipped and exchange rate shifts of as high as 10%. | | | tariffs of $4 per pair, shipping fees of $1.50 per pair, and exchange rate shifts of as high as 10%. | The reject rates at the company 's footwear plants are a function of | | | workers ' total compensation package, the number of plants, and the installation of upgrade option D. | | | the size of the incentive payment per non-defective pair produced, spending for best practices training, spending for TQM/Six Sigma quality control,