Match the terms

Knowing the term and their definitions are important. Column A has terms covered in Chapter 22S. Match the terms in column A with the definition in column B. There is only one match and the definitions are only used once.

Completing this exercise counts as a participation posting and does not require citing or references

Column A

1. The software developed to implement TOC

2. The value of inventory and the time it stays in place

3. All the actions that bring a company closer to its goals

4. Net profit

5. Return on investment

6. Accounting Cash Flow

7. Global Performance Cash Flow

8. Operations Throughput

9. Operations Inventory

10. Operating Expense

11. The goal of a firm is to do what?

12. What should be in balance rather than capacity

13. A resource whose capacity is less than the demand placed on it

14. Used to pace the production system

15. The entire production process working in harmony

Column B

A. The amount of cash available for day to day operations.

B. Drum

C. Productivity

D. Flow

E. Optimized production technology

F. Money spent to convert inventory into throughput

G. A percent of the investment

H. Dollar Days

I. All the money invested in things that are intended to be sold

J. Deductions such as for depreciation are added back

K. The actual rate of sales generated by the system

L. Synchronous manufacturing

M. Make money

N. Measurement in dollars

O. Bottleneck