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Which tactic would successfully reduce cycle stock? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Which of the following plant is used in the production process, where few raw materials can be made into several end products? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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As used in material management, bill of material: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Each of the following actions would reduce safety stock levels EXCEPT: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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What is done by individual worker who, instead of checking for defects, checks for errors that will cause defects? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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is the most detailed, complete and accurate of the capacity planning techniques. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Which business process is concerned with the replenishment of items and usually occurs on a weekly basis? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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What is used to calculate how long it will take to complete a task? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Production activity control in intermittent manufacturing is complex Because of: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Where-used reports give information about Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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The capability of the process is a measure of specifications limit. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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For a particular commodity, the line-haul cost is $2.50 per mile. For a trip of 500 miles and a shipment of 600 cwt., what is the cost of shipping cwt.? If this shipment is increased to 1000 cwt., what is the saving in cost per cwt. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Extranet is an internet shared by two or more companies. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Today production control works in a demanding environment shaped by six major challenges. Which one of the following is not of those challenges? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Which of the following best describes JIT? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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describes the function of the organization. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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A planned order receipt is generated by MRP when: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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The group works together to develop the product design so it meets the needs of the customer and can be made and delivered to the customer at low cost in a process called: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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The step for preparing MPS is/are: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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The line between two or more supply sources where the laid-down cost is the same is known as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Stock, from which withdrawals are made, can be located close to the marshalling and shipping area is referred to as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Production management is concerned with: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Which forecast performance measure detects bias? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Altering the load in balancing capacity available means? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Functional specification can be described by a combination of: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Which of the following are the two sources of specifications? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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The concept in which to preplan and generate schedules but instead to react to the final customer order and produce only what is needed to satisfy demand and then only when it is needed, is known as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Knowing the quantity beyond which the cost of using method B becomes less than for method A enables us to decide easily which process to use to minimize the total cost, this quantity is called: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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In s distribution system, which activity affects customer service and the cost of providing it? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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As 1980 gave way to the 1990 the world continued to change, forcing additional changes in supply-chain concepts. All of the following statements depict those changes EXCEPT: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Operations management works in a complex environment affected by many factors. Among the most important are: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Some of the characteristics customers expect when they buy products are all of the following EXCEPT: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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People should not only be trained in their own jobs but should also be cross-trained in other skills and in problem solving techniques, in order to achieve: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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The flow of work centers must be planned to meet delivery dates which means production activity control must do the following: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Means to find ways to increase the available hours of the constraint, including more of it is referred to as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Economic regulation has centered on which of the following areas? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Once the preliminary production plan is established, it must be compared to the existing resources of the company. This step is called answered: Are the resources available to meet the production plans? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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According to the Theory of Constraints, which of the following statements is true? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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The process of determining in detail the amount of labor and machine resources needed to achieve the required production id known as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Which of the following strategies is most likely to produce the shortest delivery leadtime? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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The information for quantities required in manufacturing, planning and control system will come from all of these EXCEPT: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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It takes capacity planning to the next level of detail .The master production schedule is the primary information source. What is it? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Which of the following is the characteristic to flow manufacturing? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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The capacity planning process occurs at each level in the priority planning process, varying only in: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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A routing file should exist for every component manufactured and contain which of the following information? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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What the following figure shows: ![]() Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Work done at each workstation should take about the same time, this is called: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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It is virtually impossible to be the best in every dimension of competition. Firms should in general: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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A work center is to process 150 units of gear shaft SG 123 on work order 333.the setup time is 1.5 hours, and the run time is 0.2 hours per piece. What is the standard time needed or run the order? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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The systematic use of techniques that identify a required function, establish a value for that function, and finally provide that function at the lowest overall cost, is known as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Operational splitting is practical when: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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A guide for all in the organization about how products and services should be provided is known as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Which scheduling is concerned with production activity from the present to a few months ahead? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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What is concerned with removing work content, not with spending money on better and faster machines? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Planned order receipt is generated by MRP when: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Frozen zone, slushy zone and liquid zone are the part of Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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shows the quantities needed and when manufacturing intends to make use or use them. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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To check the feasibility of the master Production Planning, provide warnings to any bottlenecks; ensure Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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This is the situation of lead time strategy in case of: ![]() Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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A company wants to minimize the cost of manufacture and also be flexible enough to adapt to changing needs. Changes to production schedules can result in the following EXCEPT: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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A structured approach to organize the operation for more effectiveness and less waste that is the overall goal of a lean production system includes which 5S? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Benchmarking includes the following steps: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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In terms of structure and function, the construction supply chain is characterized by the following element/ s: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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What exist because of the time needed to move goods from one location to another such as from a plant to a distribution center or a customer? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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Which of the following one is the method of reducing system nervousness? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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A tracking signal can be used to monitor the quality of forecast. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Items purchased or manufactured in quantities greater than needed immediately create . Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Purchasing and production activity control: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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demand or lead time. is held to cover random unpredictable variations in supply and Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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A company ships a particular product to a market located 1000 miles from the plant at a cost of $4 per mile. Normally it ships 500 units at a time. If the company can ship the units unassembled, it can ship 800 units in a truck. What is the line-haul cost per unit now? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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The costs those directly associated with the amount produced or sold are called: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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An income statement of a company is as follows: ![]() If through a well-organized materials management department direct materials can be reduced by 10% and direct labor by 5% the improvements in profits would be: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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A work center working one 8 hour shift for 5 days a week is available _____________ hours a week is available Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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The operation that controls the work feeding the bottleneck and must operate at a rate equal to the utput of the bottleneck so the time buffer queue is maintained is known as: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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What have most of the values clustered near a central point with progressively fewer results occurring away from the cluster? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Using non-cumulative methods, what is the ATP in period 1? ![]() Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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All of the following are requirements for a successful employee involvement (EI) program EXCEPT Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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An SKU costing $10 is ordered in quantities of 500 units, annual demand is 5200 units, carrying costs are 20%, and the cost of placing an order is $50. Calculate annual inventory carrying cost Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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What means doing it right the first time and, if something does go wrong, stopping the process and fixing it? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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In the previous problem how much actual time will be needed to run the order if the work center has an efficiency of 120% and a utilization of 80%? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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If a company makes wooden tables, the demand for the tables is called Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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To provide the required level customer service, to minimize the costs of transportation and handling, and to be able to interact with the factory to minimize the scheduling problems are all objectives of: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerC
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"Framework of organizing, defining and standardizing the business processes necessary to effectively plan and control an organization so the organization can use its internal knowledge to seek external advantage" Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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If there are 20 as in stock, only 30 needs to be made, then the requirements for components parts would be: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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Which of the following is NOT the class of activity? Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerD
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Gather the information needed by the shop floor to make the product. Release orders to the shop floor as authorized by the material equipment plan. This is called dispatching. Production activity control will do such things in: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB
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Master scheduling tries to level capacity and just-in-time tries to level the schedule based on capacity and material flow. Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerA
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The workstations required to make the product, or family of products, are located close together and in the sequence needed to make the product is called: Reveal answer details Close answer detailsCorrect answerB |