Manufacturers Who Use Just-In-Time Manufacturing Systems Coordinate Closely with Suppliers

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Multiple Choice

Manufacturers who use just-in-time manufacturing systems coordinate closely with suppliers in order to ensure that materials and supplies arrive just before they are needed in the manufacturing process.While just-in-time systems can offer major advantages in terms of inventory costs,they must be carefully managed.If a firm found that its just-in-time system was badly managed,leading to frequent manufacturing delays due to missing parts,this would represent a __________ in a SWOT analysis.

• A) weakness
• B) opportunity
• C) threat
• D) strength
• E) business mission

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Definitions:

Group Development

The process through which a group evolves over time, typically through forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning stages.

High Loyalty

A strong feeling of support or allegiance towards an organization, brand, or group.

Sequential Interdependence

A work process situation where the output of one task serves as the input to the next in a linear sequence.

Pooled Interdependence

A form of task interdependence where team members work independently and their outputs are combined to achieve the group's goals.