Who is responsible for determining the capacity needed to achieve the priority plans as well as providing, monitoring, and controlling that capacity so the priority plan can be met?

A company wants to minimize the cost of manufacture and also be flexible enough to adapt to changing needs. Changes to production schedules can result in the following EXCEPT:

Basic strategies that can be used in a production plan may be:

When a quantity of an item equal to the order point quantity is set aside and not touched until all the main stock is used up, this strategy is called:

1. Flow of work through the shop is varied and depends on the design of a particular product. As orders are processed, they will take more time at once workstation than at another. Thus, the work flow is not balanced.
2. Machinery and workers must be flexible enough to do the variety of work. Machinery and work centers are usually grouped according to the function they perform (e.g. all lathes in one department).
3. Throughput times are generally long. Scheduling work to arrive just when needed is difficult, the time taken by an order at each work center varies, and work queues before work centers, causing long delays in processing. Work-in-process inventory is often large.
4. The capacity required depends on the particular mix of products being built and is difficult to predict. These are the characteristics of: