IB skill practice

Evaluate operations, quality, capacity, stock, and supply decisions

Business Management SL practice that uses original AU/NZ business stimulus evidence, business toolkit application, stakeholder impact, and balanced evaluation.

Paper 1, Paper 2 5 marks Difficulty 2

Business Management practice: Evaluate operations, quality, capacity, stock, and supply decisions

Dunedin outdoor-gear retailer Alpine Loop has an operations problem before deciding whether to close the physical store and focus online. The case gives slow returns processing and limited warehouse space and foot traffic falling, online sales rising, and older customers needing advice. Choose the route that evaluates operations action from case data. Select the operations focus, operations data, operations method, and operations limit. Then justify the decision in your own words using the business stimulus, tool, stakeholder impact, and evaluation criterion. AI will analyse your reasoning, case evidence, business toolkit 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.