Business 9609 · AS & A Level · Operations strategy

Operations strategy — practice question

(a)[1]

Refer to line 35. Calculate CQ’s capacity utilisation.

(b)[3]

Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate CQ’s rate of inventory turnover.

(c)[12]

Evaluate whether introducing lean production will be sufficient to achieve CQ’s operational objectives.

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This 16-mark question has a full step-by-step worked solution and mark scheme. One marking point: Calculate capacity utilisation = (actual output / maximum output) × 100. Credit 75% (120,000/160,000 × 100).

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