Mba Global Network
June, 2013
Ms-58 : Management Of R&D and Innovation
1. (a) "Business is a fluid, dynamic living thing, sometimes building to great things, sometimes failing to crumpled lumps". Discuss the above fact keeping in mind technology and corporate growth.
(b) Distinguish between Basic and Applied Research with at least one practical example.
OR
June, 2010
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. What are the life cycle cost components for any plant ? How can maintenance affect the life cycle profits of any equipment and plant ?
2. What are the important components of a maintenance organization ? Name the key issues affecting the maintenance organization structure.
3. Briefly describe the concept of reliability, maintainability and availability. Why it is said that 100% reliability of all components of a machine or equipment is not always aimed to achieve ?
December, 2011
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. (a) Discuss briefly the various techniques for condition based maintenance.
(b) What are the objectives of Total Productive Maintenance ? Discuss the significance of Age-specific failure rate.
2. (a) Explain the importance of maintenance audit. Describe the salient features to be covered in a maintenance audit report.
December, 2012
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. (a) What are the Life cycle cost components for any plant? How maintenance can affect the life cycle profits of any equipment and plant?
(b) Discuss the various functions and objectives of maintenance.
2. (a) Discuss the basic principles of maintenance planning and scheduling.
June, 2013
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. (a) Explain the Life Cycle Cost and its components for any plant. Identify the factors affecting Life Cycle Profits of any industrial plant.
(b) What is preventive maintenance ? Explain different preventive maintenance tasks. How is total maintenance cost affected by the level of preventive maintenance.
2. (a) What do you understand by maintenance planning and scheduling ? Explain basic
December, 2009
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1(a) Briefly discuss the functions of materials management.
(b) Discuss the business implications of the environmental issues in materials management.
2(a) Improper supplier selection leads to receipt of inferior goods and services. Explain what stages would you follow to make a proper selection.
June, 2010
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1 (a) Discuss the value added activities included in Materials Logistics Management (MLM) program. Also discuss briefly the various interfaces that MLM covers.
(b) What are the objectives of Materials Management ? Discuss its advantages.
2. (a) Discuss the role of information in materials management.
June, 2011
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1. (a) Material Flow and Information Flows are equally important in the materials flow process. Why ?
(b) How can an organization achieve competitive advantage using information as a key driver in the organization ?
2. (a) Why is "approved list of vendors" approach is not a suitable purchase policy in certain cases ? Explain.
December, 2011
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1. (a) What are the objectives of materials management ? Discuss its importance and strategic role in any manufacturing organisation.
(b) How does TQM support in creating customer value in materials management ?
2(a) Briefly discuss the problems that a buyer may encounter while entering the international market for the first time.
December, 2012
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1. (a) Describe the three interfaces that Materials Logistics Management (MLM) program covers.
(b) Explain the role of materials management in conserving the environment.
2. (a) What is 'sub contracting'? Discuss its advantages and its effect on the output.
June, 2013
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1. (a) What do you understand by the term 'materials management' ? Briefly describe its functions.
(b) Mention the four groups into which the Inventory carrying costs can be categorized. Briefly discuss them.
2. (a) Discuss the stages of source selection process. Which is the most critical stage as per your opinion ?
June, 2010
Ms-61 : Consumer Behaviour
SECTION – A
1. What are the major influences on organizational buying ? You have been asked to manage the replacement supplies of printers and photocopies in your organisation. How would you define this organisational buying situation and the characteristics associated with it ?
2. What function do attitudes fulfil in consumer behaviour ? Briefly explain any one of the multiattribute models of attitudes and explain how would you use the understanding of this model in your marketing decisions.
June, 2011
Ms-61 : Consumer Behaviour
SECTION – A
1. You have been asked to advise a mens wear apparel manufacturer, to help them suitably segment their market and identify the most appropriate target segment. The company manufactures both formal and casual wear, and has a stylish, upmarket range. You want or to apply the VALSII typology to help them identify the target segments. Explain how would you utilise this approach and which segments would be the most appropriate for this manufacturer ?
2. Discuss the components of an attitude. Taking the example of a consumer enable purchase decision, explain what functions do attitudes play in consumer decision making.
December, 2011
Ms-61 : Consumer Behaviour
SECTION – A
1. (a) What are the major applications of life style marketing utilised by present day marketer ? Illustrate using suitable examples.
(b) As a retailer of expensive leather luggage, which approach to lifestyle segmentation
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June, 2013
MS-63 : PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
SECTION-A
1. Distinguish between the following giving suitable examples :
June, 2013
MS-63 : PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
SECTION-A
1. Distinguish between the following giving suitable examples :
(a) Convenience and shopping products
June, 2013
MS-63 : PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
SECTION-A
1. Distinguish between the following giving suitable examples :
(a) Convenience and shopping products
December, 2012
MS-61 : CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
SECTION – A
1. (a) Explain the various roles that different people as individuals can take in the context of consumer buying behaviour, taking the examples of :
(i) Toys
December, 2009
Ms-55 : Logistics and Supply Chain Management
1(a) Define value. Use Porter's value chain to explain how logistics helps organizations in deriving competitive advantage ?
(b) What do you understand by Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) ? State some of the strategies that are followed in implementation of ECR.
2a) Explain the concept of Push based supply chain and Pull based supply chain. What is a push-pull strategy ?
June, 2010
MS-55 : Logistics And Supply Chain Management
1(a) Every organisation has to move materials to support its operations. What do service companies like Internet service providers move ? Is the concept of supply chain relevant for these companies ?
(b) The root cause of the problems faced by many supply chains is a mismatch between the type of product and the type of supply chain. Explain this statement in context of demand of the product.
2(a) What do you understand by "Bullwhip effect" ? Mention some factors that contribute towards bullwhip effect. Also suggest some method by which one can reduce this effect.
