QUESTION 1: Burger King uses a product (or line) layout for its operations. Discuss both the advantages and disadvantages associated with its use as compared to the kind of layouts used by more traditional restaurants. Explain how 4Vs measures impact on the design of the fast food restaurant and the product that it offers. QUESTION 2: Operations Management is about making the best possible use of limited resources, transforming a range of inputs into outputs. Within this context, use appropriate examples to explain why is operations performance important to any organization and how is operations performance judged at an operational level? QUESTION 3: Discuss how should supply chains compete and how the supply side managed. QUESTION 4 Planning and Control Management are inextricably related in both service and manufacturing environments. Use appropriate example(s) to discuss the key activities of planning and control and how planning and control management impact on sustainability QUESTION 5: You have inherited the project management of a system implementation. The implementation of a group project has been broken down into the following activities, whose durations and dependencies are as shown below: L 7 H.K M 4 L Task A B C D E F H 1 Task Time 5 2 4 5 6 7 4 5 1 4 Preceding Task None A A B C D E D C LF GJ You are required to: a) Calculate the earliest and latest start and finish times for all activities (20 marks) b) Compute the slack for each task (10 marks) c) Find the critical path