Select the correct text in the passage. Which person in the situation below is part of the inventory control stage in the supply chain process?
Richard takes receipts of ordered materials. He also manually updates the inventory records with the goods received by matching them to the orders placed. He scans all item codes in the warehouse computer system. His friend, Carlos, arranges for fork lifters to move and stack up the inventory and makes them ready for production. He also places orders for replenishment of stocks when they reach a minimum level. Boris is another person who makes advance payments and other payments to suppliers and transporters.

One of the benefits of a well designed ergonomic work environment is low operating costs is true or false

You are the manager of a large crude-oil refinery. as part of the refining process, a certain heat exchanger (operated at high temperatures and with abrasive material flowing through it) must be replaced every year. the replacement and downtime cost in the first year is $165 comma 000. this cost is expected to increase due to inflation at a rate of 7% per year for six years (i. e. until the eoy 7), at which time this particular heat exchanger will no longer be needed. if the company's cost of capital is 15% per year, how much could you afford to spend for a higher quality heat exchanger so that these annual replacement and downtime costs could be eliminated?

Q3. loral corporation manufactures parts for an aircraft company. it uses a computerized numerical controlled (cnc) machining center to produce a specific part that has a design (nominal) target of 1.275 inches with tolerances of ± 0.020 inch. the cnc process that manufactures these parts has a mean of 1.285 inches and a standard deviation of 0.005 inch. compute the process capability ratio and process capability index, and comment on the overall capability of the process to meet the design specifications.