CPIM(Certified In Production & Inventory Management) BSCM Sample TEST. 1. Which of the following demand fulfillment approaches typically provides the longest delivery time ? A) Engineer-to-order. C) Assemble-to-order. B) Make-to-order. D) Make-to-stock. 2. Which of the following is generally a characteristic of a product-focused layout ? A) Large queues at workstations. C) Production to a work order. B) Fixed flow of work. D) General purpose workstations. 3. Which of the following is
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Working Capital Management and Firm ’s Profitability: An Optimal Cash Conversion Cycle Haitham Nobanee Department of Banking and Finance‚ The Hashemite University‚ P.O. Box 150459‚ Zarqa‚ 13133‚ Jordan. E-mail: nobanee@gmail.com Abstract The traditional link between the cash conversion cycle and the firm ’s profitability is that shortening the cash conversion cycle increases firm ’s profitability. On the other hand shortening the cash conversion cycle could harm the firm’s operations and reduces
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Matching DELL History: IBM Market Leader in Mainframe –market share 61%‚ starts PC business in ’81‚ in 2 yrs market share is 42% IBM Strategy : • Purchase PC components as against manufacturing inhouse (Main frame) • Open Architecture : OS – Microsoft‚ Microprocessor – Intel ‚ reason‚ to encourage application developers and enhance Peripheral market • Sales : o Largely corporate clients - thought its huge sales force o Retail clients through value added resellers –
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Chapter 6 Sale Force Structure 1. How many sales force in your organization? 2. What structure does your company use? Why? 3. How does this structure work? 4. Which part of the structure does the company most focus on? 5. What are the advantages of this structure to the company? 6. What are the disadvantages of this structure to the company? 7. What types of sales force organization structures does your company apply? 8. How do you divided your team? What regulations you use? 9. How does you manage
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Question 1 Highlight the production management philosophy and principles of TOC The Theory of Constraints is a management philosophy introduced by Dr. E Goldratt through his book ‘The Goal’ (1992 2nd Ed.). The Theory of Constraints (TOC) focuses‚ through scientific principles‚ on the resources of an organisation by improving the performance of the constraint that directly affects the production methods of a specific company. It is an approach which seeks to solve constraints and problems
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aspects: the linking of HR policies and practices with the strategic management process of the organization the internalization of the importance of HR on the part of line managers the integration of the workforce into the organization to foster commitment or an ‘identity of interest’ with the strategic goals. Not surprisingly‚ this approach to SHRM has been referred to as the ‘matching’ model. Early interest in the ‘matching’ model was evident in Devanna et al.’s (1984) work: ‘HR systems and
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utilize their working capital wisely to maintain their day-to-day operations. Businesses tend to focus on either profitability or liquidity and for Target this is no different. So‚ if Target wants to know how profitable they are‚ they can access
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HBS Case 9‐202‐024 Strategic Capital Management‚ LLC Instruction for the Case Report The case report carries 10 marks and should follow the structure suggested below. It should have at most 6 pages including the cover page‚ and should be printed with line space 1.5 lines and font size 12. The cover page should contain the name of the group‚ student name and ID number. There is one mark for the clarity of the writing. Note that lecturers will help you to clarify conceptual issues but not specific case questions and calculations
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Production and operations management: A present scenario A new management specialization has joined hands with the fields like Financial management‚ Supply chain management‚ Business management‚ Insurance management and that field has really a influence on the working of present organizations and that management field is "Production and Operations Management". Although ‚ the concepts introduced with POM ‚ as it is commonly referred as‚ are not a new one for example time study ‚ motion study‚ and
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MB0044 - Production and Operation Management Q1. State the important considerations for locating an automobile plant. Following are the important considerations for locating a Automobile plant - (1) Market. (2) Transportation. (3) Electricity. (4) Community’s liking for having a plant in their locality. (5) Taxation. (6) Labour availability. (7) Water supply. (8) Transperency and ease of land accusition. (9) Availability of raw materials. (10) cheap land (11) train station (12)
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