Question Completion:
Dimension Importance Spike Olaf Andy
Cost 4 1 5 3
Reliability 2 5 2 3
Cost 3 3 3 4
Answer:
Great Pumpkin Inc.
Great Pumpkin should choose Olaf Manufacturing with the highest weighted score of 33.
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Dimension Importance Spike Olaf Andy
Cost 4 4 (1*4) 20 (5*4) 12 (3*4)
Reliability 2 10 (5*2) 4 (2*2) 6 (3*2)
Cost 3 9 (3*3) 9 (3*3) 12 (4*3)
Total weighted scores 23 33 30
b) Based on the total weighted scores, Olaf Manufacturing performed best among the three companies. It should be chosen. To obtain the weighted scores for each company, the scale it obtains under each dimension is multiplied by the importance of the dimension. This is done for each dimension and each company before the total weighted scores are obtained and the company with the highest score is adjudged the winner.
Answer:
<u>Mistake of ignoring secondary effects</u>
Explanation:
Whenever there arises an adverse impact of a policy and it's implementation, owing to ignorance of secondary consequences, it is termed as ignoring secondary effects.
In short, it refers to assessing and viewing only the positive aspects of a policy or a move, meanwhile not taking into consideration the other adverse consequences which are also associated with the same policy.
In the given case, the environmentalists have only considered the generation of alternative sources of energy via windmills which will lead to preservation of fossil fuels. The proposed policy has been implemented without taking into account it's flip side i.e the harm it causes to bat population and migratory birds.
Thus, it can be stated that the environmentalists herein only considered the favorable outcome of a policy implementation and ignored the adverse effect of the same. Hence, they are said to have committed the mistake of ignoring the secondary effects.
Answer and Explanation:
The fixed quantity inventory system, the quantity of an order or the lot size is fixed in nature i.e. the similar amount means the quantity is ordered each and every time. It could be managed by continonusly watching the level of inventory. Example - economic order quantity
On the other hand, the fixed period inventory system is a system in which the inventory is to be checked at fixed inventory. It is same as the periodic reveiw system instead of the continuous basis. Example - drugstore
