Managing staffing levels to avoid layoffs due to poor business conditions can help control which type of benefits cost?

The management at Sad Clown Pajamas, an Internet-based wholesaler, is considering a new inventory control system. The current system is inadequate because it results in stockouts that interrupt production and excess stocks of some materials that result in markdowns and high carrying costs. The new system, which will focus on forecasting demand for Sad Clown's products, will employ

A) a just-in-time inventory system. B) the economic order quantity. C) a reorder point. D) materials requirements planning.

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Horizontal, hollow and modular organization designs are sometimes subsumed under the single term "Network Designs 2. Greenfield redesign means breaking completely from the classical structure and establishing a totally different design 3. In network redesign, established companies return to a previously successful design by eliminating unproductive structural additions and modifications. 4. One network approach is to require internal units of a firm to interact at market prices - buy and sell to each other at prices equal to those that can be obtained by outsourcing partners. 5. The word virtual as used in virtual organizations comes from the popular 'virtual reality.