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Chapter 12 Short Answer 
Here is the link to the online textbook for reference if you choose to gain some background and use any terminology from this text. 
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Question: Is it possible to achieve zero inventories?  Why or why not?  How do the following factors affect a company’s ability to achieve zero inventories: product variety, product quality, level of production automation, product complexity, product lead time, incoming component quality, variability in supplier lead times, and length of supplier lead times.
Company Post Topic: Give 2 examples of how great companies apply Lean Principles in their business  today.
Instructions for completing the discussion posts:
Short Answer Discussions Posts
The first post will be a response to the discussion question.  In the second and third posts you will reply to your own thread with two (2) real-world examples of actual companies (like Nike, Intel, Dutch Brothers, etc.) that demonstrate how the company applies the key concept(s) discussed in the question and explain why. The assigned questions have been selected from your textbook’s end of chapter exercises.
Each question response post should be between 80 and 130 words.
Examples should be labeled as Example #1 & Example #2 and each should be between 80 and 130 words.
To get 100% for the company posts, Examples need to be researched and discuss what is done at a specific company and include an external reference. Examples that are opinions or do not identify a specific example of a company will receive at most 50% credit.
All discussion posts are due on Fridays by 11:59 PM, but they can be completed at any point up to the due date.
Discussions have unlimited submissions, and only the most recent submission is graded.
You will be able to review fellow group members’ responses after creating your post.
Please keep in mind you are writing 3 sections of maximum 130 words each.  Grand total of 390 words.  
Firstly respond to the questions above. Second, pick a real life company example to support the question in this discussion post, apply the concepts/reference to the textbook and solid interenet source details. Third, pick a second real-life example company to back up the original position of this post.  
Please label each section. Question response, example 1, & example 2. 
Please be sure to upload a turnitin report. Thank you, kindly. 

Reading Assignment
The reading assignments from: Strategic Management, Training Skills, Understanding Personality Types, and What HR People Do provide conceptual overviews while the case study provides the substantive content for this week’s activity.
Strategic Management, by N. Ritson, pages 47-50. 
Training Skills, by E. Garner, pages 41-43. 
Understanding Personality Types, by E. Garner, pages 47-50. 
What HR People Do, by T. Greener, pages 57-70. 
Leadership Skills, by MTD Training, pages 47-51. 
Digital Divide Data, a case study by Mathew, A., Rod, G., Villalobos, J. & Yates, D., pages 1-12. 
Discussion Assignment
After studying the Digital Divide Data (DDD) case study, describe DDD’s business goal and the strategic choices available to it.
Part 2 will be uploaded once Part 1 is complete. Part 2 is only to comment on the 3 student’s discussions.