Consumer Behavior

Which of the following is a negative aspect of JIT compared to synchronous manufacturing?

A. JIT cannot deal with outside vendors.

B. JIT needs broadly fluctuating production levels.

C. JIT does not allow very much flexibility in the products produced.

D. JIT requires a great deal of workforce computational skills.

E. JIT does not deal well with bottlenecks.

Answer: C

A useful measure of inventory performance is called "dollar days." In which of the following areas are dollar days measurements not useful?

A. Marketing

B. Research and development

C. Manufacturing

D. Project management

E. Purchasing

Answer: B

Which of the following is not an important concept in TOC?

A. CCR

B. Rope

C. Drum

D. Buffer

E. File

Answer: E

Which of the following is an approach to dealing with a bottleneck?

A. Keep a buffer inventory in front of it to ensure that it always has something to work on.

B. Use Johnson's sequencing rules on bottleneck operations.

C. Don't worry about the bottleneck; it will take care of itself.

D. Move things to a faster bottleneck.

E. Pay an incentive bonus to workers on the bottleneck operation.

Answer: A

According to the theory of constraints, which of the following is a kind of time that makes up the cycle time in production?

A. Process time

B. Starting time

C. Quitting time

D. Information time

E. Finish time

Answer: A

According to the theory of constraints, which of the following is a kind of time that makes up the cycle time in production?

A. Quality time

B. Break time

C. Research time

D. Just-in-time

E. Idle time

Answer: E

According to the theory of constraints, which of the following can be a CCR?

A. Factory layout

B. Product design

C. An employee

D. A customer

E. Sales literature

Answer: C