Business process management provides businesses with a unified system of operation.

_____ is the process that converts inputs into outputs that can be sold as goods and services.

_____ is the combining of natural resources, human resources, and capital to produce goods and services.

When a thermometer manufacture combines glass tubing, mercury, red dye, paint, plastic, and metal to make thermometers, it is an example of:

_____ is the management of the production conversion process for both goods and services.

Operations management is:

Operations managers:

Production and operations management involves three main types of decisions that are made at three different stages. The first type of decision to be made deals with:

Production and operations management involves three main types of decisions that are made at three different stages. The final stage of operations management focuses on:

During production planning, the operations manager must make decisions about all of the following EXCEPT:

The ability to manufacture many goods at once is called _____ production.

Spalding produces large numbers of golf balls all at once. Spalding puts the golf balls in inventory and distributes them around the world. Spalding uses:

In the last two years, BMW AG, the Bavarian auto maker, has developed a car made primarily from carbon-fibers that is not only light and fast, but also fuel efficient. (The automaker is using the carbon fiber similarly to how Audi has used aluminum.) BMW is planning to build a large plant where it can manufacture thousands of identical carbon fiber parts and then distribute these parts to its automobile manufacturing plants for incorporation into BMW vehicles. This new plant will engage in:

In _____, goods are produced using mass production techniques up to a point. Then production is custom tailored to the needs or desires of individual customers.

There is a standard approach to butchering a steer. Once the steers are butchered according to the agreed upon method, butchers are able to provide one customer with a 2-inch thick T-bone steak and another with thin pieces of steak for making fajitas. After standardized preparation, the meat is tailored to meet individual needs and desires. This is called:

Hans Guten makes furniture according to the specifications of the customer who ordered it. Each piece of furniture he makes is unique. He only makes one piece of furniture at a time. Guten is engaged in:

Synergy Oil and Gas builds oil-well drilling platforms to customer and government specifications. These platforms can cost as much as $1 billion. Synergy works on one platform at a time, and when it is finished, moves its crew to a new project. Synergy engages in:

There is a facility in California that takes off-the-shelf Ford Mustangs and hones them into high-performance vehicles. The assembly line at this facility is simply a line of cars on hand-pushed carts that are moved from station to station, but many of the operations that are typically performed in an assembly plant do take place here. Using this system the company has turned out over 8,000 vehicles, more than any other American specialty vehicle manufacturer. This is an example of:

Starcrest Publishing is one of many companies who will take demographic information about your child and publish a story written about that child. The story is already written, and a computer is used to insert the relevant information into the spaces left blank—such as the child’s name, his address, his age, his grandparents’ name, etc. Starcrest Publishing uses:

A manufacturer that uses the intermittent process to produce special customer orders is called a: