Megan Wants to Start a Company That Makes Handmade Products

question 72

Multiple Choice

Megan wants to start a company that makes handmade products. She has limited capital, and she does not want to spend it on maintaining a large inventory of raw materials. She plans to maintain only two weeks' worth of stock of finished goods as she does not want to end up with a large inventory of products that may not sell. Which of the following production systems would be most suitable for Megan's company?

• A) The push system of inventory control
• B) The mass production system
• C) The just-in-time production system
• D) The continuous production system

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Definitions:

Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution

A reaction where a nucleophile replaces the leaving group in an acyl compound.

Carbonyl

A functional group consisting of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom \(\text{C=O}\).

Leaving Group

An atom or group that departs with a pair of electrons in a chemical reaction, making a bond-breaking step feasible.

Alkoxides

Anions formed from the deprotonation of alcohols, typically represented as RO-, where R is an alkyl group.