Ava Beane, the newly hired Manager of Inventory Planning, would like your assistance in evaluating several alternative courses of actions to address the inventory challenges faced by Scientific Glass. Please answer the following questions to help her analyze her options. 1. Given the finance department's forecast of a 20% increase in sales, how much more will SG have to invest in inventory to deal with the increase if nothing changes in its inventory management policies

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above