The mission of the purchasing department is to identify and qualify adequate sources of competitively priced supply to manufacture the products required by the marketplace. Many times, this mission includes identifying sources regardless of their location. This is called:

In an ATO environment, the execution and control function can help ensure a valid material plan by

Workloads between work centers might be redistributed by

A scheduling method for compressing lead time or to expedite a small quantity is

Infinite loading will indicate which of the following situations when comparing a gateway work center to a non-gateway non-bottleneck operation?

Which of the following elements of lead time is ignored by CRP?

In a job shop environment, which situation is optimal from a capacity planning perspective?

Theoretical capacity is most closely approached by

Which of the following actions would result in shorter purchasing lead times?

An ETO environment with fairly long lead times has a severely overloaded work center in the middle of the production process. Assuming deadlines cannot be changed, a simulation of the situation is most likely to

Infinite loading is useful for