What term describes the amount of planned work scheduled for and released to a facility during a specific period?

• A. Lead-time offset
• B. Load
• C. Kanban
• D. Landed cost

Answer: (B)

The question is about how much work is planned and released to a facility in a given time frame. That measure is called the load. It represents the amount of scheduled effort or units placed on a resource during a period and is used to compare with the facility’s available capacity to see if you’re overloading or underutilizing the line.

Lead-time offset involves adjusting start times to account for lead times; Kanban deals with signaling for material flow; landed cost is the total cost to bring a product to the customer. Because the description focuses on the volume of work released to a facility in a specific period, the term that fits best is load.