Question

1.Provide definitions of throughput, inventory and operational expense given in The Goal. How do they compare with traditional definitions

Answer 1

The Goal:

This involves increasing net profit and as this is done, return on investment is increased and cash flow is also increased.

Throughput can be defined as the rate by which money is being generated by the system through sales.

Inventory is all amount of money that is currently in the system. It is all the amount of money that has been invested in buying things which the system has intentions of selling.

Operational expense is all amount of money that has been spent by the system in trying to turn inventory into throughput.

Compared to traditional definitions they are almost basically with the same meaning.