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1. Why should American companies care about sweatshops overseas? Do you think this is an example of the “west” placing values on developing countries? Include at least three internet links in your post.
2. What components do you feel should be included in a plan for protecting information privacy and security? Do you feel the CIO should complete these plans or individual department heads? Defend your response.
3. A retail store in Virginia sells unique, handmade lawn ornaments. If 150 customers wish to buy lawn ornaments from this store, and it sells 120 before running out of stock, what is its service level?
A. 20 percent
B. 80 percent
C. 15 percent
D. 85 percent
4. Which of the following most directly expresses the motivation behind the expression “Buffer or Suffer”?
A. To increase capacity, it is important to reduce setup times in a process
B. When there are setup costs, producing in large enough batches is important to avoid reducing capacity
C. Adding product variety to a process with setup times is likely to increase the average amount of inventory needed
D. If there is variability in the arrival process or in activity times, make sure there is sufficient inventory between stages, otherwise capacity will be reduced
E. If you want to increase the capacity of a process, add capacity first to the bottleneck.