and uncouples the sales forecast from manufacturing by establishing a manufacturing plan

The costs those directly associated with the amount produced or sold are called:

What is based on a comparative analysis of the introduction and growth of similar products in the hope that the new product behaves in a similar fashion?

A tool to map and understand the flow of materials from supplier to customer, focusing on not only understanding the current state of process and flow but also specifying the value-added and non-value-added time of all process steps, is called.

If there are 20 as in stock, only 30 needs to be made, then the requirements for components parts would be: