Processes always have clients, whether external, outside the firm, or internal, usually comprising company employees. The Total Quality Management concept stresses the role of external clients but doesn’t take internal clients into account (unlike in the Quality Management concept where internal clients are considered).

The ERP system represents an evolution of MRP, and, in addition to helping plan the operations, it also includes finance, human resource, warehouse, billing, sales and procurement models, among others, that help better integrate all the different areas of the company as well as improve internal costs and productivity.

Greater commonality of a component SKU with respect to various finished product SKUs is a desirable objective in operations, since it increases the product’s range flexibility with respect to these finished products but not the volume flexibility.

The “JIT in the supply chain” focus in JIT manufacturing leads to having a limited number of suppliers for each SKU as a result of rigorously selecting only those suppliers that offer the highest level of excellence. However, the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a certain increase in the number of suppliers to minimize impacts on global supply chains.

Saunder’s Bakery of Pancakes uses a weighted moving average method to forecast pancake sales. It assigns a weight of 5 to the previous month’s demand, 3 to demand two months ago, and 1 to demand three months ago. If sales amounted to 3000 pancakes in May, 2200 pancakes in June, and 1000 pancakes in July, what should be the forecast for August?

Long-range forecasts are more accurate than short-range forecasts.

Is the production process under statistical control?

How many units of components E and D are required to produce 10 units of the final product A?

All of the following are manifestations of right sided heart failure except: 

The nurse is evaluating a patient who was treated for increased ICP. Their previous GCS assessment findings were the following: incomprehensible sounds, no eye opening in response to pain or verbal stimuli, decorticate posturing. After reassessing the patient, which finding would indicate improvement related to motor function?