Production and Material Management Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

141. Due to availability of...................., quality of the products produced by the manufacturers remains same.

1. technology
2. raw materials
3. machineries
4. human resource

142. Productivity measurement is complicated by

1. the competitions output
2. the fact that precise units of measure are often unavailable
3. stable quality
4. the workforce size

143. Which of the following functions is not a core function of an organization?

1. The marketing (including sales) function
2. The operations function
3. The accounting and finance function
4. The product/service development function

144. The service sector has lower productivity improvements than the manufacturing sector because

1. the service sector uses less skilled labor than manufacturing
2. the quality of output is lower in services than manufacturing
3. services usually are labor intensive
4. service sector productivity is hard to measure

145. The symbol of rectangle shape represents the process of.....................in the process analysis.

1. Transportation
2. Transportation
3. Inspection
4. Delay

146. The sampling inspection procedure adopted in statistical quality control is of..............types.

1. two
2. three
3. four
4. five

147. The total of all outputs produced by the transformation process divided by the total of the inputs is

1. utilization
2. greater in manufacturing than in services
3. defined only for manufacturing firms
4. multi-factor productivity

148. Good...............fosters long term thinking.

1. vision
2. mission
3. plan
4. target

149. VED analysis of inventory management stands for

1. Vital-Essential-Desirable
2. Valuable-Easy-Difficult
3. Very-Essentially-Desired
4. Valuable-Effective-Difficult to obtain

150. Taylor and Deming would have both agreed that

1. Whirlpools global strategy is a good one
2. Eli Whitney was an important contributor to statistical theory
3. management must do more to improve the work environment and its processes so that quality can be improved
4. productivity is more important than quality