What are the three basic functional areas of business organizations? Explain the responsibilities of each function in the context of a real (or hypothetical) supply chain firm.

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Assignment Questions:
1. What are the three basic functional areas of business organizations? Explain the responsibilities of each function in the context of a real (or hypothetical) supply chain firm.
2. List three operations management and decision making tools and illustrate with examples how they are/can be used in operations management.
3. After reviewing the issues associated with the need to manage the supply chain on page 30-31 of the textbook, identify and explain one issue that the book did not address.
4. After reviewing the factors that affect productivity on page 60-61 of the textbook, identify and explain one other factor that is not addressed in the book.
5. A U.S. company has two manufacturing plants, one in the United States and one in another country. Both produce the same product, each for sale in their respective countries. However, their productivity figures are quite different. The analyst thinks this is because the U.S. plant uses more automated equipment for processing while the other plant uses a higher percentage of labor. Explain how that factor can cause productivity figures to be misleading. Is there another way to compare the two plants that would be more meaningful?

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