Answer the following questions in 100-150 words each:1. Identify some strategic operations management decisions in the Chapter. How do they compare to your organization? 2. What activities

Answer the following questions in 100-150 words each:

1.      Identify some strategic operations management decisions in the Chapter. How do they compare to your organization?

2.      What activities are involved in the operations function? How does operations interact with other functional areas?  What constitutes operations in your own company?

3.     Describe the global activities of a corporation of your choice. How many foreign plants or suppliers do they have? Where are they located? How much of their business is foreign? Are any global strategies evident?

4.     Define Operations Management

5.     How should a company select an outsourcing provider?

6.     How must an operations strategy integrate with marketing and accounting?

7.     With either using the library or an Internet search, identify the mission of a firm and the strategy that supports that mission.

8.     What is vertical integration? Give examples of backward and forward integration.

9.     How does Darden Restaurants, described in the Global Company Profile, find competitive advantage in its supply chain?  How does your company use its supply chain?

10.  Define the strategic goals of supply chain management, and indicate how each element of a supply chain (purchasing, production, inventory, and transportation and distribution) affects these goals.