Alyssa Owns Carver Gifts, and She Is Projecting That the Economy

Multiple Choice

Alyssa owns Carver Gifts, and she is projecting that the economy will rebound this fall. She ordered additional holiday gift merchandise in February in anticipation of the surge in sales that the holiday season usually but not always brings to her retail store. Here Alyssa is using __________ to be sure she has enough gifts for those extra holiday customers.

A) just-in-time inventory management
B) smoothing
C) kanban
D) buffering
E) adapting at the core