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___________ is a computer application that enables a firm to combine computerized functions of all divisions and subsidiaries of the firm into a single,integrated software program that uses a single database.

A) Materials requirement planning (MRP)
B) PERT analysis
C) Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II)
D) Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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In order to determine overall progress on her current project,production manager Michelle Hudson often refers to a bar graph that shows what activities are being worked on,and how much of each task has been completed on a daily basis.Michelle is using a Gantt chart.

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Companies like Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo have issued their own mandatory sustainability scorecards.If suppliers do not fall in line with these companies' requests,they risk being "fired" from some of their biggest clients.

The main idea in the Making Ethical Decisions box,"Stay or Leave?" indicates:

Evidence suggests that U.S.manufacturing firms can no longer compete against the best firms in the rest of the world.

Currently,manufacturing accounts for only around 70% of U.S.GDP.

Manufacturers use CAM (computer aided manufacturing)to create three-dimensional designs of products before they are built.

When it comes to location decisions,labor costs are no longer an important consideration for most manufacturing firms.

Superior Supplies' largest customer recently implemented a just-in-time inventory system.As a supplier of materials to this customer,Superior Supplies' will:

Dewey Dare is a production and operations manager with a clothing manufacturer.He has been looking into a system that will enable his company to take measurements from a customer and program machines to design and produce custom-cut clothes at little additional cost.This type of system is an example of the benefits of:

The ___________ National Quality Award is given to firms that achieve an outstanding level of overall quality based on performance in seven key areas.

In order to be more competitive globally,production techniques such as enterprise resource planning and lean manufacturing are being used by American manufacturers.

Mypartz,Inc.is a major supplier of components used by Idle Time Gaming Systems.Idle Time Gaming wants to implement a just-in-time inventory system.Mypartz should benefit from this approach,since JIT systems greatly simplify the task of suppliers.

CAD has __________ productivity in many firms.

Which of the following is a likely reason that a company would move its facility from one location to another?

At Stevens Manufacturing workers are organized in teams that combine their efforts to produce complex units of a final product.Stevens is using a facility layout known as a(n) :

Only firms in the manufacturing sector can create true form utility.

____________ examines statistical samples of product components at each stage of the production process and plots the results on a graph in order to spot and correct any variances from desired quality levels.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) goes beyond the capabilities of MRP because it:

Sophisticated software that enables computer-aided design machines to communicate with computer-aided manufacturing machines is called: