Assignment: Chapter $18$: Managing Service and Manufacturing Operations

Brad Leong, Danny Fukuba, and Sam Gordon are the inventors of the Oona, a stand that allows people to position their smartphones in almost endless configurations.

The Oona is made of aircraft$-$grade aluminum, with suction cups of low shore durometer silicone. Designed to utilize all the functions of a smartphone, the Oona is easily moved from place to place, attaching to surfaces from car windshields to tripods.

After designing the product, the three inventors raised money for their first production run on Kickstarter, an online funding platform for inventors. When pledges closed, the company had raised $$131,220$ from $3,915$ backers$-$the eighth highest amount in Kickstarter's history. Then the hard work of manufacturing large volumes of the Oona began.

If the manufacturers chosen by Brad, Danny, and Sam use an innovative software system to determine the production schedule, production batch sizes, and inventories needed to complete future orders, they are likely using:

$$ An inventory turnover system

A just$-$in$-$time inventory system

An economic order quantity system

A materials requirement plannina svstem