In the early stages of developing the employee involvement process, a consultant should be used for which of the following reasons?
I. To provide guidance on getting started
II. To provide education/training to management personnel
III. To help in avoiding pitfalls

Visibility into supplier＇s systems can allow the organization to prepare its own system to manage production and logistics---for example

A company purchases a high-volume commodity part from 3 suppliers, which of the following performance measures is most likely compared by the supplier rating system?

An appropriate objective for a buyer to pay a visit to a potential supplier is to

A company is implementing lean principles, including reducing their supplier base. A key element for the supplier rating system is

An action the most supports the principle that quality of information between a customer and supplier leads to product quality is

A key reason for asking purchasing to be involved in the design of a new product is that

When designing a new part, a company can contract with one or more suppliers in a competitive bidding situation, or perform concurrent engineering with one supplier, which of the following situations would most support concurrent engineering?

A design process that attempts to meet all the needs of the stakeholders and should result in a product that can be quickly brought to the marketplace is

Which of the following communications is the primary means of notifying suppliers of needs in a MTS environment where the company is minimizing in-plant inventories?

4PL and 3PL are different in that