APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 581:

  Which of the following are three important factors must consider in managing the material requirements plan?

  A. Priority, Bottom-up Replanning and reducing system nervousness
  B. Planned orders, released orders and firm planned orders
  C. Priority, Exception message and transaction message
  D. None of the above is true
  A. Priority, Bottom-up Replanning and reducing system nervousness

• Question 582:

  A manufacturer has the alternative of making parts in-house or of buying them from an outside supplier. Reason/s to buy out may be:

  A. Requires less capital investment
  B. Uses specialized expertise of suppliers
  C. Allows the firm to concentrate on its own areas of specialization
  D. All of these
  D. All of these

• Question 583:

  The advantage/s of production leveling is/are:

  A. It results in smooth level off operation that avoids the costs of changing production levels.
  B. Firms do not need to have excess capacity to meet peak demand
  C. Firms do not need to hire and train workers and lay them off in slack periods D. All of these
  D

• Question 584:

  ABC Corporation has chosen three projects for implementation this year. They are increased usage of common components, implementation of safety capacity, and integration of ATP logic within customer processes. These actions are most supportive of which order winner?

  A. Innovation
  B. Price/Cost
  C. Delivery Reliability
  D. Image
  C. Delivery Reliability

• Question 585:

  Which of the following situation that will leads or generates Exception messages?

  A. Components for which planned orders are in the action bucket and which should be considered for release
  B. Open orders for which the timing or quantity of scheduled receipts does not satisfy the plan.
  C. Situations in which the standard lead times will result in late delivery of a Zero-level part
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 586:

  Basic concepts in TQM:

  A. A committed and involved management
  B. Focus on the customer
  C. Involvement of the total workforce
  D. All of these
  D. All of these

• Question 587:

  Forecasted Actual

  

  This forecast performance is best described as:

  A. biased
  B. Random Error
  C. Efficient
  D. Naive
  A. biased

• Question 588:

  Resource planning includes changes in all of the following EXCEPT:

  A. Staffing
  B. Capital equipment
  C. Product design or other facilities
  D. Factory premises
  D. Factory premises