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

Which of the following statements are true regarding ERP systems?
I. It cannot reduce setup time.
II. It provides information regarding various problems so management can solve them.
III. It can solve quality problems by providing scrap/yield information.

Often times, organizations try to improve their operations by concentrating their efforts on labor productivity. Which of the following are reasons their efforts may be misdirected?
I. Labor costs are generally the smallest component of product cost.
II. Efficiency of factory workers doesn＇t necessarily relate to benefits for the company.
III. Worker idle time could be used for learning, cleaning, maintenance, etc.

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

Manufacturing planning and control systems for repetitive manufacturers should include which of the following features?
I. Schedule generation
II. Backflushing
III. Point of use stocking

There are three constituencies that are underrepresented but need to be included in the strategy setting process. Which of the following is one of the constituencies?

Using a family tree subdivision of effort, and starting with the end objective required and successively subdividing it into manageable components in terms of size and complexity is called the:

All of the following are major categories of infrastructure EXCEPT:

Kotter explains that the most general lesson to be learned from companies that were successful at creating significant change is that the change process usually requires:

Many companies have attempted to change their organizations into continuous improvement organizations. However, many have failed because they did not:

Some factories have incompatible islands of automation caused by: