Failure in specification development

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1. Which one of the following individuals was not presented in the textbook as a quality guru?

Phillip Crosby

Kenneth Starling

Maassaki Imai

Joseph Juran

2. Which one of the four is not a failure in specification development?

Lack of Clarity

Limiting Competition.

Using perfromance based specifications.

Unreasonable tolerances.

3. Which one of the following is NOT an associated benefit of standardization?

Enables mass production and customization.

Improves supplier coordination, and improves quality.

Makes the supply chain manager's role and the supplier's role more confusing on what to produce and deliver.

Enables simplification, and lowers inventories.

4. Which one of the following is a complex specification based on the categorization provided in the textbook?

Performance specifications.

Engineering Drawings

Function and fit specifications.

Samples.

5. How does the supply chain manager fit into a management's efforts to provide quality service to their customer?

The supply chain manager has no role in his/her comany's quality program. That is the role of the Quality Department.

The supply chain manager must supervise the quality management staff, to effectively manage the quality of the parts from their suppliers.

The supply chain manager's senior executives and the suppliers senior executives are primarily responsible for the quality of good and services between the two companies.

The supply chain managers have a critical role to ensure that those products and services provided from their supplier base conform to their purchasing needs. They are responsible for ensuring purchasing contracts are correct as written, and they ensure the suppliers are indeed meeting contract requirements which include the quality of the goods and services.

6. Which one of the following is NOT considered an advantage of leasing?

Obsolescence protection

Finanacial Leverage

Lack of total control of the equipment.

Managerial convenience.

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