IB skill practice

Compare production methods and capacity decisions

Business Management SL practice with original AU/NZ business stimulus evidence, functional-area theory, toolkit or quantitative diagram support, stakeholder impact, and balanced evaluation.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Ia 5 marks Difficulty 2

Business Management practice: Compare production methods and capacity decisions

Business Management SL stimulus: Perth coffee roaster Red Gum Beans is choosing an operations method before automating part of packaging. The case says labelling and packing are the main bottlenecks and damaged-label complaints doubled in the last quarter. Use the operations flow diagram before judging capacity. Select the production method, capacity data, process choice, and capacity limit. Then answer this in your own words: how would this route improve the business decision answer for this exact case? AI will analyse your reasoning, stimulus evidence, toolkit or calculation use, recommendation quality, and expression.

Worked practice: build the response

Work through the business response: concept focus, supporting evidence, the decision, then a reasoned judgement.