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Key operations questions<br />

Chapter 10<br />

The nature of planning and control<br />

➤ What is planning and control?<br />

➤ How do supply and demand affect planning<br />

and control?<br />

➤ What are the activities of planning and control?<br />

Chapter 11<br />

Capacity planning and control<br />

➤ What is capacity planning and control?<br />

➤ How are demand and capacity measured?<br />

➤ What are the alternative ways of coping with<br />

demand fluctuation?<br />

➤ How can operations plan and control their<br />

capacity level?<br />

➤ How can queuing theory be used to plan<br />

capacity?<br />

Chapter 12<br />

Inventory planning and control<br />

➤ What is inventory?<br />

➤ Why is inventory necessary?<br />

➤ What are the disadvantages of holding<br />

inventory?<br />

➤ How much inventory should an operation hold?<br />

➤ When should an operation replenish its<br />

inventory?<br />

➤ How can inventory be controlled?<br />

Chapter 13<br />

Supply chain planning and control<br />

➤ What is supply chain management?<br />

➤ What are the activities of supply chain<br />

management?<br />

➤ What are the types of relationship between<br />

operations in supply chains?<br />

➤ How do supply chains behave in practice?<br />

➤ How can supply chains be improved?<br />

Chapter 14<br />

ERP<br />

➤ What is ERP?<br />

➤ How did ERP develop?<br />

➤ How should ERP systems be implemented?<br />

Chapter 15<br />

Lean synchronization<br />

➤ What is lean synchronization?<br />

➤ How does lean synchronization eliminate<br />

waste?<br />

➤ How does lean synchronization apply<br />

throughout the supply network?<br />

➤ How does lean synchronization compare with<br />

other approaches?<br />

Chapter 16<br />

Project planning and control<br />

➤ What is a project?<br />

➤ What makes project management successful?<br />

➤ How are projects planned and controlled?<br />

➤ What is project planning and why is it<br />

important?<br />

➤ How can the techniques of network planning<br />

help project management?<br />

Chapter 17<br />

Quality planning and control<br />

➤ What is quality and why is it so important?<br />

➤ How can quality problems be diagnosed?<br />

➤ What steps lead towards conformance to<br />

specification?<br />

➤ What is total quality management (TQM)?

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