A firm makes numerous models of mowers, garden tractors, and gasoline powered utility vehicles. Some assemblies and parts are common to many end items. To relieve the MPS of performing order releases on these common parts, the firm might choose to use the ________ technique.

A) Wagner-Whitin
B) economic part period
C) supermarket
D) gross material requirements
E) resource requirements profile

The use of a supermarket technique would allow the firm to have a central location where common parts and assemblies are stored and made available to various end item production lines as needed. This eliminates the need for the MPS to perform order releases for individual parts for each end item, streamlining the process and reducing lead times. The other techniques mentioned (Wagner-Whitin, economic part period, gross material requirements, and resource requirements profile) are more focused on production planning and inventory management for specific parts or materials, rather than the broad goal of coordinating common parts for multiple end items.