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Unit 3: Managing a business
Quick questions on Quality, materials and lean strategies in operations (VCE Business Management Unit 3)
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What are materials management strategies?Show answer
Materials management is the planning, sourcing, ordering, storing and moving of physical inputs through the operations system. Poor materials management produces stockouts, excess inventory, working-capital tied up in warehouses, obsolescence write-downs and late-delivery penalties. VCAA names four strategies.
What are quality strategies?Show answer
Quality is the degree to which a product or service meets customer expectations and is free from defects. Poor quality produces returns, complaints, brand damage, regulatory action and rework cost. VCAA names three approaches.
What is service-business application?Show answer
The strategies apply to service businesses with adaptation. A bank does not have raw materials, but it has process inputs (customer applications, regulatory data), production schedules (loan application throughput), quality controls (compliance checks, calibration of risk decisions) and lean opportunities (eliminating non-value-adding steps in the customer journey).
What is plan?Show answer
Identify the underlying issues, recommend a combination of materials, quality and lean strategies, justify with the expected impact.
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