What technique best determines production and inventory quantities for goods and services with independent demand?

Corporate culture is best defined by which two of the following statements:
1. Management influences the way people operate;
2. Values are about what is important;
3. Important assumptions are shared by members;
4. Values impact little about how a company works;

Supplier linkages are especially important when a firm is:
1. Competing on delivery speed;
2. Using synchronous scheduling;
3. Producing a commodity product;
4. Operating in position 1 of the volume/variety matrix;

Resource requirements planning

When a firm decides to switch a plant within a plant concept, which of the following changes are most likely to occur in the P&IM personnel?
1. More P&IM personnel will be added to the firm;
2. Purchasing personnel will reduce their span of control;
3. Shop floor personnel will have a wider span of control;

A product focused plant is likely to have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

Which of the following pairs of strategic advantages would be most difficult to achieve simultaneously?

All of the following is true of a product in the decline portion of the product life cycle EXCEPT

All of the following are considerations in the adoption of a process focus EXCEPT the

Which of the following best measures the production operation＇s contribution to delivery reliability?

Which of the following processes will most likely need to be altered to support the plant within a plant for the contract manufacturing?