The Practice of Selecting Suppliers and Giving Them Significant Responsibility

question 96

Multiple Choice

The practice of selecting suppliers and giving them significant responsibility for the design of certain components or systems of the product is called:

• A) value analysis.
• B) locus of control.
• C) presourcing.
• D) vendor-managed inventories.

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Definitions:

Synthetic Element

An element that is not found naturally on Earth and can only be created artificially in a laboratory or nuclear reactor.

Technetium

A radioactive chemical element with symbol Tc and atomic number 43, noteworthy for being the first element to be artificially produced.

Continuous Spectrum

A type of emission spectrum showing an uninterrupted band of colors from red to violet, typically emitted by an incandescent solid, liquid, or gas under pressure.

Wavelengths

The distance between consecutive peaks (or troughs) in a wave, often used in the context of electromagnetic radiation.