APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 471:

  Physical distribution contributes to:

  A. Creating demand
  B. Prompt delivery
  C. Product availability and accurate order filling
  D. All of these
  D. All of these

• Question 472:

  When a calculation is made to find out how many are needed, the quantities available must be considered in:

  A. Maintaining the bills of material structures
  B. Linkage between manufacturing planning and control system
  C. Inventory records
  D. Both A and C
  C. Inventory records

• Question 473:

  The movement and storage of finished goods from end of production to the customer is called:

  A. Physical supply
  B. Physical distribution
  C. Physical associate
  D. Physical channel
  B. Physical distribution

• Question 474:

  A difference between the physical count and inventory dollars for the inventory records is called:

  A. Accuracy
  B. Resolution
  C. Reconciliation
  D. Provocation
  C. Reconciliation

• Question 475:

  _____ is a rate of doing work, not the quantity of work done.

  A. Capacity
  B. Capacity Planning
  C. Capacity Control
  D. Capacity required
  A. Capacity

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  Explanation/Reference:

• Question 476:

  Which one of following is not an important factor in supply chain?

  A. The supply chain includes all activities and processes to supply a product or service to a final customer
  B. Any number of companies can be linked in the supply chain
  C. product or services usually flow from customer to supplier and design and demand information usually flows from customer to supplier. Rarely is this not so.
  D. A customer can be a supplier to another customer so the total chain can have a number of supplier customer relationships.
  C. product or services usually flow from customer to supplier and design and demand information usually flows from customer to supplier. Rarely is this not so.

• Question 477:

  1.

  Flow of work through the shop is varied and depends on the design of a particular product. As orders are processed, they will take more time at once workstation than at another. Thus, the work flow is not balanced.

  2.

  Machinery and workers must be flexible enough to do the variety of work. Machinery and work centers are usually grouped according to the function they perform (e.g. all lathes in one department).

  3.

  Throughput times are generally long. Scheduling work to arrive just when needed is difficult, the time taken by an order at each work center varies, and work queues before work centers, causing long delays in processing. Work-in-process inventory is often large.

  4.

  The capacity required depends on the particular mix of products being built and is difficult to predict.

  These are the characteristics of:

  A. Flow manufacturing
  B. Project manufacturing
  C. Intermittent manufacturing
  D. All of these
  B. Project manufacturing

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  Explanation/Reference:

• Question 478:

  To order exactly what is needed, no more, no less, this rule is called:

  A. lot-for-lot
  B. Fixed-order quantity
  C. Permanent lot
  D. Rigid-order rule
  A. lot-for-lot

• Question 479:

  Which of the following is the file that fall in planning category?

  A. master file
  B. product structure file
  C. routing file
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 480:

  What is done by individual worker who, instead of checking for defects, checks for errors that will cause defects?

  A. Successive check
  B. Self-check
  C. Source inspection
  D. Source correction
  C. Source inspection