Regarding the relationship between inventory management and JIT systems, which of the following (if any) are true?

a. JIT systems require careful inventory management.
b. Since JIT seeks to reduce inventory to a bare minimum, inventory management is not really an issue anymore.
c. Inventory management and JIT are independent notions that do not relate to each other.
d. JIT systems work very well if supplier and manufacturer inventory systems can be integrated into one system.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(50,100)