Which of the following most directly expresses the motivation behind the expression “Buffer or Suffer”?
A. Adding product variety to a process with setup times is likely to increase the average amount of inventory needed.
B. To increase capacity, it is important to reduce setup times in a process.
C. If you want to increase the capacity of a process, add capacity first to the bottleneck.
D. If there is variability in the arrival process or in activity times, make sure there is sufficient inventory between stages, otherwise process capacity will be reduced.
E. When there are setup costs, producing in large enough batches is important to avoid reducing capacity.