$1.$ What are the three elements that require integration to be successful in operations and supply chain management?

$2.$ Operations and supply chain management is concerned with the design and management of the entire system that has what function?

$3.$ Consider the following financial data from the past year for Midwest Outdoor Equipment Corporation.

$4.$ A manufacturing company has entered into a new contract with a major supplier of raw materials used in the manufacturing process. Under the new arrangement, called vendor managed inventory, the supplier manages their raw material inventory inside the manufacturer$$s plant, and only bills the manufacturer when the manufacturer consumes the raw material. How is this likely to affect the manufacturer$$s inventory turnover ratio?

$5.$ What is the name of the process in which one company studies the processes of another firm in order to identify best practices?

$6.$ A company has recently implemented an automated online billing and payment processing system for orders it ships to customers. As a result, it has reduced the average number of days between billing a customer and receiving payment by $10$ days. How will this affect the receivables turnover ratio?

$8.$ Which major OSCM concept can be described as an integrated set of activities designed to achieve high$-$volume production using minimal inventories of parts that arrive at workstations exactly when they are needed?

$9.$ leverage the vast amount of data in enterprise resource planning systems to make decisions related to managing resources.

$10.$ Which current issue in OSCM relates to the ability of a firm to maintain balance in a system, considering the ongoing economic, employee, and environmental viability of the firm?