APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  When a supplier maintains an inventory of certain items in the customer's facility, this approach is known as:

  A. Supply managed procedure
  B. Product scheduling
  C. Supply-chain management
  D. Vendor-managed inventory
  D. Vendor-managed inventory

• Question 102:

  Production must keep its operating cost as low as possible this can be done in the following way/ways:

  A. Make long production runs of relatively few production runs of relatively few products. Fewer Changeovers will be needed and specialized equipment can be used thus reducing the cost of making the product
  B. Maintain high inventories of raw materials and work-in-process so production is not disrupted by shortages.
  C. Manufacture only to customer order
  D. Provide lowest distribution costs
  A. Make long production runs of relatively few production runs of relatively few products. Fewer Changeovers will be needed and specialized equipment can be used thus reducing the cost of making the product
  B. Maintain high inventories of raw materials and work-in-process so production is not disrupted by shortages.

• Question 103:

  With reference to the above example; considering 116 cases produced during the period what is the ending inventory for each period?

  A. 102 cases
  B. 107 cases
  C. 110 cases
  D. 106 cases
  A. 102 cases

• Question 104:

  The rate of production that is synchronized with the rate of customer demand is known as:

  A. takt time
  B. horizon time
  C. stipulate
  D. challenge
  A. takt time

• Question 105:

  One way to find out the capacity of a work center is to examine the information as the available capacity of the work center.

  A. Production records
  B. Available inventory
  C. Utilization
  D. Efficiency
  A. Production records

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• Question 106:

  Which is the basic system used for locating stock?

  A. Group functionally related items together
  B. Group fast-moving items
  C. Group physically similar items together
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 107:

  The time a job waits at a work center before being handled is called:

  A. Queue time
  B. Wait time
  C. Linger time
  D. Interval time
  A. Queue time

• Question 108:

  It takes capacity planning to the next level of detail .The master production schedule is the primary information source. What is it?

  A. Resource planning
  B. Rough-out capacity planning
  C. Capacity requirement planning
  D. None of these
  B. Rough-out capacity planning

• Question 109:

  Goods making up a single order are brought together and checked for omissions or errors, this is known as:

  A. Dispatch shipment
  B. Marshal the shipment
  C. Operate the shipment
  D. Receive the shipment
  B. Marshal the shipment

• Question 110:

  A tool to map and understand the flow of materials from supplier to customer, focusing on not only understanding the current state of process and flow but also specifying the value-added and non- value-added time of all process steps, is called_____________________

  Correct Answer. Value stream mapping
  Value stream mapping

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