What is the side of the shoe towards the center line of the body?
100
Pattern
What is a paper or computer model for each piece of a product? Used as a guide to construct a product.
100
Sell through
What is the ratio of the quantity of goods sold at retail to the quantity distributed at wholesale?
100
Value
What is the term used to refer to the output of a process step - what the customer is willing to pay for?
100
Projects are unique, temporary, and have a defined beginning and end. Processes are repetitive.
What is the difference between a project and a process?
200
Quarter
What is the part of the upper that makes up the sides of the shoe?
200
Grading
What is proportionately increasing or decreasing the dimensions of parts of a product according to the size ranges intended for production?
200
Sourcing
What is the process of obtaining goods and/or services from a manufacturer either domestically or globally?
200
Waste
What is the term used to refer to output that the customer would NOT be willing to pay for?
200
WBS - Work Breakdown Structure
What is the artifact that is created by breaking down all of the tasks required to complete a project?
300
Tip
What is the part of the upper that wraps around the front of the toe?
300
Knit
What is a fabric created by interlocking loops of yarn?
300
Commercialization
What is the last process step before production . . . full size runs are made and production trials occur to ensure the product is manufacturable in all sizes.
300
Value Stream Mapping
What is the term for mapping out a process so that the value and waste in the process is "visible" to the eye?
300
Responsibility Matrix or RACI
What is the artifact that shows each high level task and who is responsible, accountable, consulted, or informed for each task?
400
Strobel Lasting
What is a shoe construction technique in which a fabric or other flexible material is stitched to the bottom of the upper and then the upper is slipped onto the last.
400
Overlay
What is the top layer of fabric when a different fabric is underneath?
400
Assortment Planning
What is a process whereby products are selected and planned to maximize sales and profit for a specified period of time?
400
Kaizen
What is the Japanese term that refers to continuous improvement?
400
Manhattan Project
What is one of the first projects conducted, using contemporary project management practices. Hint: early 1940's in the desert of New Mexico.
500
Counter foxing
What is the upper pattern piece that covers the heel counter?
500
Strike off
What is a sample (larger than a swatch), made as a trial to test production methods?
500
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
What is the common name or acronym for business management software that includes tools for executing supply chain transactions, managing supplier relationships and controlling associated business processes?
500
"Problems are good" or " 'No problem' is a problem"
What is the phrase that explains why problems should be sought out and not hidden so that learning can occur?
500
The Triple Constraints
What is the term that refers to cost, schedule, and scope of a project and the need to keep the three in balance?