APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 341:

  Assemble- to-order is a subset of make-to-order. Which of the following is needed to make a production plan for make-to-order products?

  A. Forecasts by period for the planning horizon
  B. Opening backlogs of customer orders
  C. Desired ending backlog
  D. All of these
  D. All of these

• Question 342:

  Important way to resolve conflicting objective is:

  A. To provide close coordination of the supply, production and distribution functions.
  B. Balance conflicting objectives to minimize the total of all costs involved
  C. Integrated materials management or logistics organization
  D. All statements related ones.
  D. All statements related ones.

• Question 343:

  Stockout cost money for which of the following reason?

  A. Back-order costs
  B. Lost costs
  C. Lost customers
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 344:

  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:

  A. gateway operation
  B. bottleneck operation
  C. task operation
  D. Control buffer operation
  A. gateway operation

• Question 345:

  Calculated or rated capacity is based on:

  A. finite time, recovery and production
  B. available time, utilization and efficiency
  C. available time, resources and efficiency
  D. rated capacity time, utilization and production
  B. available time, utilization and efficiency

• Question 346:

  In terms of structure and function, the construction supply chain is characterized by the following element/s:

  A. It is a converging supply chain directing all materials to the construction site where the object is assembled from incoming materials. The ?construction factory ?is set up around the single product, in contrast to manufacturing systems where multiple products pass through the factory, and are distributed to many customers.
  B. It is, apart from rare exceptions, a temporary supply chain producing one-of construction projects through repeated reconfiguration of project organizations. As a result, the construction supply chain is typified by instability, fragmentation, and especially by the separation between the design and the construction of the built object.
  C. It is a typical make-to-order supply chain, with every project creating a new product or prototype.There is little repetition, again with minor exceptions. The process can be very similar, however, for projects of a particular kind.
  D. All of these
  B. It is, apart from rare exceptions, a temporary supply chain producing one-of construction projects through repeated reconfiguration of project organizations. As a result, the construction supply chain is typified by instability, fragmentation, and especially by the separation between the design and the construction of the built object.

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• Question 347:

  shows the quantities needed and when manufacturing intends to make use or use them.

  A. MPS
  B. Production plan
  C. Purchasing and production activity control
  D. Material Requirement Plan
  D. Material Requirement Plan

• Question 348:

  When a company is pursuing a program to achieve manufacturing excellence, which of the following objectives should receive the highest priority?

  A. delivery reliability
  B. quality improvement
  C. cost reduction
  D. volume flexibility
  B. quality improvement

• Question 349:

  Capacity is the quantity of work done and not the rate of doing work.

  A. True
  B. False
  B. False

• Question 350:

  This is a true representation

  

  A. MRP
  B. Capacity Control
  C. PAC
  D. MRP II
  C. PAC