In theory of constraints scheduling, the __________ refers to the schedule and the __________ refers to inventory used to ensure that the bottleneck is never idle.
A)rope; drum
B)drum; rope
C)drum; buffer
D)buffer; drum
E)buffer; rope

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In the theory of constraints, the "drum" refers to the schedule that sets the pace for production, while the "buffer" refers to the inventory used to ensure that the bottleneck resource is never idle.

In Theory of Constraints Scheduling, the __________ Refers to the Schedule