Often, even in a JIT environment where parts are sole sourced, there will be another approved supplier who is not used unless a problem develops with the primary supplier. This approved but unused supplier is called a(an):

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

Which of the following bottleneck performance measures is as meaningful in a MTO environment with a functional layout as it is in a MTS environment with a flow layout?