On Your First Day as the New Operations Manager for a Major

question 19

Multiple Choice

On your first day as the new operations manager for a major toy manufacturer, you take a look at how raw materials are handled. The manufacturing plant keeps close to 500,000 types of tiny parts on hand, ready for assembly. To ensure that workers are able to easily locate, inventory, and retrieve these parts, as well as finished goods, you've decided the company needs ______ to keep production at its peak.

• A) a cold-storage warehouse
• B) a distribution warehouse
• C) an automated warehouse
• D) a storage warehouse

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