APICS APICS Certifications CPIM-MPR Questions & Answers

• Question 471:

  Acme Chemical Company has a price order winner, which actions are consistent with this advantage?

  A. chase production strategy, freight consolidation, and kaizan teams

  B. level production strategy,freight consolidation, and SPC

  C. level production strategy, LTL transport, and incoming inspection

  D. combination production strategy, freight consolidation, and incoming inspection

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 472:

  Delivery lead time is the longest in case of:

  A. Make-to-order

  B. Make to-stock

  C. Assemble-to-order

  D. None of these

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 473:

  Which of the following is an advantage of VMI?

  A. Suppliers can leverage better information to reduce inventory levels.

  B. The customer can usually force additional concessions from the VMI supplier

  C. Lead-times are increased

  D. MRP system operating costs decrease

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 474:

  Which of the following best describes JIT?

  A. The continuous elimination of inventory

  B. The continual reduction of lead-times

  C. The elimination of value-adding activities

  D. The continuous elimination of waste

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 475:

  FLY Manufacturing is an aircraft manufacturer. They produce executive jets on an Engineer-to-order basis. Which of the following MRPII processes would most likely NOT be required at FLY?

  A. Business Planning

  B. Sales and operations Planning

  C. materials requirements planning

  D. Distribution Requirements Planning

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 476:

  Companies that produce a narrow range of high-volume products will most likely choose which of the following processes?

  A. Project

  B. Jobbing

  C. Batch

  D. Line

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 477:

  All of the following are requirements for a successful employee involvement (EI) program EXCEPT

  A. Common understanding of the employee's role in achieving the plant's strategy

  B. Management clearly identifying and defining the problems to be solved

  C. Providing the EI teams with authority to change work processes

  D. Developing intrinsic and extrinsic reward to recognize jobs done well

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 478:

  Which of the following is the most important consideration when designing an information system to control shop floor operations?

  A. Supporting differentiation between functional areas and production operations

  B. Providing staff specialists with the information needed to control production operations

  C. Allowing factory personnel to manage their own production operations

  D. Encouraging users to operate independently with a minimal amount of training

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 479:

  Analyzing capital investments by estimating future cash flows and translating them into equivalent amounts in today's terms is called:

  A. Average return on investment analysis

  B. payback analysis

  C. internal rate of return analysis

  D. discounted cash flow analysis

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 480:

  A manufacturer's decision to extend the degree of forward integration should be influenced by its desire to do which of the following?

  

  A. I only

  B. III only

  C. I and II only

  D. I, II, and III

  Correct Answer: C