AS & A Level / Business / Operations, capacity and quality Question practice
Operations, capacity and quality About this practice Original, unofficial practice. Evaluative marking points are indicative: credit equivalent justified arguments, one point per distinct criterion, without double counting.
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Business Operations, capacity and quality
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1 Distinguish quality control from quality assurance in a food-processing business. Easy 2 marks No calculator + 2 Fictional case: a workshop makes 3600 units in a month against a maximum monthly capacity of 4500. Calculate capacity utilisation and unused capacity. Easy 2 marks Calculator + 3 Fictional case: average usage is 40 parts daily, delivery lead time is 5 days, and safety stock is 60 parts. Using reorder level = lead-time usage + safety stock, calculate the reorder level. Explain what happens if delivery takes 7 days and usage is unchanged, assuming no other stock arrivals. Medium 4 marks Calculator + 4 Fictional case: a factory reduces batch size and reorganises machinery into cells. Analyse possible effects on inventory, flexibility and implementation costs. Medium 4 marks No calculator + 5 Fictional case: a hospital supplier considers just-in-time stock for sterile equipment, but its sole overseas supplier has unreliable delivery. Evaluate the change. Hard 4 marks No calculator + 6 Fictional case: a furniture firm proposes automation for standard chairs while custom orders are growing. Evaluate automating the entire production line. Hard 4 marks No calculator + Self-assessed Not marked yet
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