Production and Operations Management BBA Third Year Sixth Semester Examination 2010

BBA THIRD YEAR SIXTH SEMESTER EXAMINATION, 2010

PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Subject Code: 3205

Examination Code: 606

Time – 3 hours

Full marks – 70

[N.B – The figures in the right margin indicate full marks.]

Part A- Short questions

(Answer any five questions. Proper sequence of answers must be maintained)

1.      (a) What do you mean by Operations Management?

(b) Explain the steps in manufacturing process.

2.      (a) Define Inventory. Why proper inventory valuation important for a business?

(b) “Types of inventory in manufacturing concern are not similar to service concern.” – Explain.

3.      (a) Explain the concept of total Quality Management.

(b) “Quality assurance incur cost.” Explain.

4.      What is decision process? Explain the relationship between decisions in manufacturing and service concern.

5.      (a) Define competitive priorities.

(b) What are the three service and manufacturing strategies in operations strategy?

6.      (a) What performance criteria should be emphasized for layout?

(b) Describe three basic steps in flexible layout.

7.      Define capacity. What are the two ways of capacity measures?

Part B- Broad Questions

(Answer any three questions. The sequence of answers must be maintained)

8.      (a) What is corporate strategy? What factors should considered at the time of developing corporate strategy?

(b) What do you mean by market analysis? Explain the steps in Market analysis.

(c) What factor should consider at the time of job design?

9.      (a) What is location analysis? Explain in brief the factors that affect location analysis.

(b) Explain the methods that uses for location analysis.

(c) What is load distance method? Discuss the situations where this method is appropriate

10. (a) The Marlin Company Produces plastic bottles to customer order. The Quality inspector randomly selects four bottles from the bottle machine and measures the outside of the bottle neck, a critical quality dimension that determines whether the bottle cap will fit properly. The dimension (in). form the last six samples are-

		Bottle
Sample	1	2	3	4
1	0.604	`0.612	0.588	0.600
2	0.597	0.601	0.607	0.603
3	0.581	0.570	0.585	0.592
4	0.620	0.605	0.595	0.588
5	0.590	0.614	0.608	0.604
6	0.585	0.583	0.617	0.579

11. (a) A local distributor for a national tire company expects to sell approximately   9,600 steel belted radical tires of a certain size and tread design next year. Annual carrying cost is Tk. 16 per tire, and ordering cost is Tk. 75. The distributor operates 288 days a year-

(a)  What is the EOQ?

(b)  How many times per year does the store recorder?

(c)  What is the length of an order cycle?

(d)  What is the total annual cost if the EOQ quantity is ordered?

(b) A toy manufacturer usage 48000 rubber wheels per year for its popular dump truck series. The firm makes its own wheels, which it can produce at a rate of 800 per day. The toy trucks are assembled uniformly over the entire year. Carrying cost is $1 per wheel a year. Set up cost for a production run of wheels is $45. The firm operates 240 days per year. Determine the –

(a) Optimal run size;

(b) Cycle time for the optimum run size;

(c)  Run time.

12. Write short notes on any five of the following:-

(a)  Forecasting ;

(b)  ISD 9000;

(c)  JTT-II;

(d)  Market Segmentation;

(e)  Supply Chain Management;

(f)   Mass Customization;

(g)  Gantt Charts;

(h)  Kanban System.