Why Might Labour Costs Be Reduced in a Value Stream

Multiple Choice

Why might labour costs be reduced in a value stream system?

A) The reduction causes an elimination of the need for any specialized skilled employees such as industrial engineers or production schedulers.
B) The labour costs of industrial engineers and production schedulers can be pooled and allocated to the value streams.
C) Some of the workers can be cross-trained to perform value-added activities within the value stream.
D) Typically,implementing value stream results in layoffs of many workers.