Which of the following is a tactic for reducing demand pressure on a process bottleneck?
A) Place a quality inspection point immediately before the bottleneck.
B) Decrease the size of batches run through the bottleneck (assuming setup required).
C) Increase inventory levels at the non-bottleneck resources.
D) All of the above.

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An inspection point before the bottleneck helps reduce the use of valuable capacity on poor quality inputs, which then have to be scrapped or reworked. Generally, batches through the bottleneck should be larger to minimize setup time, and increasing inventory at the non-bottleneck centers would have no impact on the demand at the bottleneck.

Which of the Following Is a Tactic for Reducing Demand