It is always important to monitor and feedback performance to the suppliers. In a JIT environment, however, supplier performance is vital to the ongoing operation of the business. Deliveries must be made on time, quantities must be exactly right, and quality must be perfect. Shipments are usually made within tight time windows and must be adhered to. Which of the following best describes why the demands are so rigid on a JIT supplier?

A supplier receipt has been rejected due to a sampling inspection process. What should production ask the quality department to do in order to keep the material plan valid?

The element of flexibility most related to the number of Kanban in the system is

Locating a customer-owned area within a supplier＇s facility enables the ability to achieve

Changing plant layout to a manufacturing cell arrangement to attain faster plant throughput requires

Producing a consistently high-quality product requires which of the following actions?

Production orders are riskiest to dispatch w/o knowing

A company wants to lower costs on products purchased from a single source supplier. The most effectively way to accomplish this is to

One method to increase machine utilization is to

Variability refers to a characteristic of

Production becomes less synchronous the lower in a BOM the part is due to