Eduqas GCSE Business topic area 3 Business operations overview quiz quiz

Batch production

Job production

Flow production

Mass production

It is highly flexible and can switch quickly between many different products

It needs no machinery at all and relies entirely on skilled manual workers

It has a very low cost per unit

It suits one-off custom orders made individually for each separate customer

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2,000 units

5 units

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Building quality into the whole process so faults are prevented at every stage

Inspecting finished products only at the very end of the line to remove any faulty ones

Selling products as cheaply as possible to attract more customers

Only checking the products that customers have already complained about

It holds a large buffer of spare stock in the warehouse at all times

It cuts the cash tied up in stock and reduces waste

It guarantees that a business can never run out of stock at all

It needs no reliable suppliers, since deliveries are not time-critical

Running out of stock whenever there is a sudden rise in demand

Having no buffer of spare stock to cope with unexpected demand

Cash tied up and goods becoming damaged or out of date

Faster delivery to customers because stock is always available

Because cheap suppliers are illegal and a business is simply not allowed to use them

Because the price a supplier charges never matters to a business at all

Because the cheapest supplier is always the best choice in every situation

Because poor quality or unreliable delivery can cost more than the price saving

Support provided after a customer has bought, such as warranties and helplines

Advertising a product to customers before any sale has actually been made yet

The price that a product is finally sold for to the customer at the point of sale

Choosing a supplier to provide the materials a business needs for production

Loyal customers will always pay much more tax to the government than any other customers do

Loyal customers buy again, spend more and are cheaper to keep than new ones are to win

Loyal customers never complain about a product, however poor the quality is

Loyal customers remove the need for a business to keep its quality high

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It increases the amount of spare stock that must always be held in the warehouse at any one time

It removes the need for a business to deal with suppliers at all any more

It guarantees that a business can charge higher prices for its products

It tracks stock in real time and reorders automatically, avoiding stockouts and overstocking

It needs heavy upfront investment and can lead to job losses

It always reduces the total output a factory can produce in a day

It makes the quality of the finished products far less consistent

It is impossible to maintain once the machines have been installed