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6) Menchie's Landscaping service routinely provides lawn fertilization services to their customers. It has been forecasted that they will be fertilizing 250 customer lawns in the upcoming season. Each lawn requires an average of 20 lbs. of fertilizer. What term can be used to describe the demand for the fertilizer?

A) Sporadic demand

B) Independent demand

C) Co-variance demand

D) Dependent demand

7) Which of the following practices is a form of demand management?

A) Hotels offering off-season discounts

B) A restaurant reducing capacity during the afternoon lean hours

C) Theatres pricing matinee shows at a lower price

D) All of the above

E) A and C only

8) A manufacturer of printers introduces a new product to the market and produces the product in its new

manufacturing facility in Texas. When employees become familiar with producing a particular product and as newer products are introduced, the production of mature products is moved to partners in Mexico to accommodate production of the new product line. The manufacturer is using a practice called

A) channel management.

B) counterseasonal production.

C) product phasing.

D) product churn.

9) Vitamix, a producer of high quality blenders which has a seasonal demand, sells the product through in-store demonstrations at other retail partner stores during the holiday season. During the rest of the year, they use company owned stores and their online website to sell the product. The company is using a practice called

A) channel management.

B) counterseasonal production.

C) product phasing.

D) product churn.

10) To reduce inventory variability in the supply chain and to better match demand with supply at various stages in the supply chain, which of the following two practices are effective?

A) Communication

B) Longer lead-times

C) Collaboration

D) Quantity discounts