Question 2. (l) Explain what is meant by 'operations management and how operations management and supply chain management interact. (ii) Briefly list and describe the main production strategies, and comment on how each strategy affects the logistics tasks relating to the products being produced. Question 3. (1) Outline the objectives of procurement and purchasing activities. (i) Identify the factors which might result in a decision to purchase items from a supplier who charges more for a stock/inventory item than the price offered by a different supplier, and outline how a 'supplier appraisal might be conducted. Question 4. (1) Outline the essential differences between "quality management and TQM processes, and explain why it is necessary to maintain a realistic balance between customer satisfaction and quality costs. (1) Explain clearly the differences between quality control and quality assurance and the processes involved. Question 5. (0) Outline the logistical advantages and disadvantages of various modes of transport affect a logisticians choice of transport methods. e cist and explain the meaning of a product's risk characteristics", and give examples of how those might a logistics manager and logistics in general, might change over the life-cycle of a product using an example auestion 6. Briefly describe what is meant by "the product life cycle". () Explain how and why the work of of your own choose one element of logistics work and explain how that logistics work might change over the life-cycle of the product