IB skill practice

Evaluate location, quality, outsourcing, and supply 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 3

Business Management practice: Evaluate location, quality, outsourcing, and supply decisions

Business Management SL stimulus: Perth coffee roaster Red Gum Beans is reviewing location, quality, outsourcing, or suppliers 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 location and quality map before recommending. Select the location factor, quality evidence, supply choice, and operations evaluation. 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.