Porter, in his diamond model, suggested that there is a strong association between which of the following and the creation and persistence of competitive advantage in an industry?

Which of the following statements is true of the Computer Software Copyright Act?

A) It outlawed the creation or sale of a device that can crack codes to allow one to copy software. B) It outlawed distribution or copying of copyrighted material over the Internet, even for the purposes of education and research. C) It declared that the act of evading anti-piracy technologies included in software is a crime. D) It declared that the coded language and general framework of computer software can be copyrighted.

When the operations manager determines a minimum level of inventory then reorders inputs when this level is reached, she is using

A) fixed-interval reordering. B) a conversion process. C) MRP. D) fixed-point reordering.