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1. According to the Mayo Clinic Performance management and measurement system, all except one of the following are performance categories.

A. Profitability

B. Customer satisfaction

C. Social commitment

D. Internal Operations

E. Patient characteristics

2. Fixed costs are $20,000 per year, variable cost per unit is $10, and selling price per unit is $30. What price must each book be sold for to obtain a yearly profit of $40,000. Assuming that an estimated demand is the same amount at the breakeven.

a. $10 b. $20 c. $30 d. $40 e. None of the above

3. The assembly time for a product is uniformly distributed between 6 to 21 minutes. The probability density function has what value in the interval between 6 and 21?

4. The fastest-growing segment of pharmaceutical marketing is:

A. marketing to physicians

B. marketing to nurse practitioners

C. marketing to the consumer

D. none of these

5. A supply chain involves all the activities associated with how manufacturing, materials, facilities, personnel, transportation, inventory, and other items flow and then are transformed into goods and services. Every asset, information, and process is part of the supply chain. For this Discussion, you will be addressing how the supply chain works and possible issues you may encounter.

Within this complex system, operation management responsibilities can be both strategic and tactical.

Examine the place where you currently work, or a prior career, and identify a single service or product produced by your organization.

Identify the different components of the supply chain for that product or service (list them from beginning to end). Be sure to identify which parts of the supply chain are considered "upstream" and "downstream" exchanges.

Based on what you learned from your research, describe a single current issue that might negatively impact a company's global supply chain.