Which of the following is true about modular product design?

Supply chain and operations strategy needs to flow from corporate and business strategy.

A tech billionaire is interested in building a one-of-a-kind (i.e., unique) facility for their company’s new headquarters. What process-order fulfillment combination is best suited for this work?

Which of the following is not the most appropriate metric to evaluate the performance of a Make-To-Order process? 

A restaurant offers a “customer’s choice” sandwich meal where customers can customize their meal by selecting one option from each of the following categories: Bread options: 3 types Meat options: 4 types Cheese options: 5 types Topping options: 11 types Side options: French fries, fruit cup, potato salad, or coleslaw (4 options) Beverage options: bottled water, soda, iced tea, beer, or wine (5 options) Use this data to answer the next question.

5S is an important tenet of Lean is to declutter and organize one’s workspace so that:

Calculate the number of containers needed for the system (round up to the next highest whole number if your answer is a fraction).

Once the elevator is fixed and the average server process time reverts to 20 minutes per order, the capacity of the “Servers” team is:

Which of the following can be a source of waste according to lean thinking?

A factory has 200,000 parts in the system, and the average flow rate of the system is 20,000 parts per day. If the management wants to reduce the average processing time by 20%, what will the new average processing time be after the reduction?