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Presents

Operations & Supply Chain Quiz

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1 – Identify this personality:

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1. Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Author of The Goal.

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2 – This company has introduced ‘Assembly Line’ concept to restaurant industry and revolutionized it forever by serving “Fast Food”.

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2. McDonald’s

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3 – The company X is credited for introducing ‘Cross Docking’ logistics technique to retail industry. It helped in greatly reducing the inventory holding cost by minimizing warehousing requirement. This enabled the company to gain competitive advantage by selling at lower prices.

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3. Walmart

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4 - This was the first logo of a global oil company when it was founded back in the 1900’s.

Identify this company which is currently headquartered at The Hague, Netherlands.

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4. Royal Dutch Shell

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5 – Which company is credited for developing the following:

1940 – First Walkie-Talkie

1973 – First Mobile Phone

1985 – Six Sigma Technique.

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5.Motorola

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6 – ____________________ is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. A reading of more than 50 represents expansion of the manufacturing sector, a reading under 50 represents a contraction, while a reading at 50 indicates no change compared to previous month.

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6. Purchasing Manufacturing Index, PMI.

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7 – This multi-billion dollar clothing retail chain & one of the most recognized brands in the world is known for its unique marketing strategy of ‘Zero Advertising’. It does not spend any money towards advertising or promotional campaigns.

Its highly automated factories leveraging from JIT inventory control method deliver new designs twice each week to its 1,670 stores around the world, making it one of the most efficient supply chain.

Identify this company.

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7. ZARA

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8 – This company has been ranked no. 1 globally by Gartner.com for its supply chain management practices and had its first logo as the following. 

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8. Apple Inc.

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9 – This famous computer manufacturing company utilizes "Push-Pull" supply chain strategy in which it assembles a portion of the product, waits for a customer order and then finishes the remaining portion. This reduces the lead time, while still allowing them to provide a customized product. 

Identify this company.

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9. DELL

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10 – Id the company

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10. Flipkart

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11 – This company has been a pioneer in the development of ‘Direct Store Delivery (DSD)’ model which centers on eliminating the warehousing step in the process of getting goods to the market; instead, the suppliers/manufacturers take their products directly to the store.

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11. PepsiCo Limited

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12 – Which manufacturing practice focuses on the following seven terms, originally referred as Mudas, a Japanese term for wastes?

Transport Inventory Motion Waiting OverproductionOver ProcessingDefects

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12. Lean Manufacturing

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13 – The company X, an immensely popular global brand is recognized for its green supply chain practices and was originally founded in 1964.

Tiger Woods is the brand ambassador of X. Identify X.

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13. Nike

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14 – The company X currently offers 3000 different products through more than 500 brands in over 200 countries using one of the greenest supply chain management practices.

Interbrand has rated X as the most valued global brand in the world with a brand value of 78 billion dollars.

Identify X.

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14. Coca Cola Company

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15 – This multinational automobile company has decided to make India its global production base for compact cars through its project codenamed as B562.

For this, the company has chosen Sanand, Gujarat for its upcoming manufacturing unit.

Identify this company.

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15. Ford Motor Company

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16 – Kanban, a Japanese term which means ‘signboard’, is related to which production optimization technique?

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16. Just In Time manufacturing

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17 – Changi Airport, the national airport of X, is one of the busiest airport in the world in terms of cargo logistics.

It has also been voted the best airport in the world by various organizations and rating agencies.

Identify the country X.

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17. Singapore

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18 – Identify the management philosophy connecting the below hints:

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18. Theory of Constraints

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19 – This company is credited for developing the Critical Path Method (CPM) and also the synthetic polymers such as Nylon, Teflon, Kevlar & Neoprene. Id the company

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19. Du Pont

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20. What’s Next ?

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20. Strive 5- E-Magazine of OPEP club.

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Thank You

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