Question

The National Chair Company manufacturers wooden chairs and sells them via their website. Their chairs are manufactured in a make-to-stock fashion but are not painted. Customers then order the chairs and request a paint color. Only after the order is made does the National Chair Company paint the chair. This is an example of:

Automation

Back-end manufacturing

Downstream manufacturing

Flexible workforce

Front-end manufacturing

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter "D": Flexible workforce.

Step-by-step explanation:

Postponement manufacturing refers to a production process that delays the delivery of the product to the end-consumer. This is mostly applied by companies whose sales are based on customized orders. Therefore, before the products are sent to their owners they are personalized at their will. This method of work requires a flexible labor force since the wants of consumers from one order to the following.