In the last few years, a bike manufacturing company relied on suppliers from China, Singapore and India to get precision parts for its custom bikes. However, there was one noted concern, the parts quality from all 3 locations lacked consistency and precision. The parts engineers reported the issue to the top management claiming that as many as 3 out of 5 of the parts received were discarded because they were defective. The quality control team suggested to top management to look into another supplier in Ohio, but who is a bit more expensive that the other overseas suppliers. The Ohio supplier utilized _________________ to test samples of product components for defects in quality and precision before they were sent to the bike company. This resulted in saving time and money. Group of answer choices statistical process control just-in-time inventory control lean manufacturing Flexible manufacturing