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Which of the following functional areas decides the product to be supplied and the customers to be served?
- A. Engineering
- B. Finance
- C. Manufacturing
- D. Marketing
Answer : D
Which of the following statements is true regarding the concept of independent demand?
- A. These items are usually raw materials.
- B. The requirements for these items are usually forecasted.
- C. The demand for these items must be calculated.
- D. The demand for these items is related to demand for other items.
Answer : B
An order winner is a competitive characteristic that:
- A. is universal between customers and markets.
- B. differentiates among potential customers.
- C. a company must exhibit to be considered a potential supplier.
- D. a company must exhibit to gain new sales.
Answer : D
A product has a forecast of 200 units a month. The actual demand for the past 6 months has been 195, 210, 205, 190, 220, and 225. Which of the following values reflects the mean absolute deviation for this data?
- A. 7.5
- B. 12.5
- C. 45
- D. 75
Answer : B
Which demand management activity includes processing a customer request and making material available for production or shipping?
- A. Forecasting
- B. Order processing
- C. Providing available-to-promise dates
- D. Communicating with the marketplace
Answer : B
Which of the following calculations is a major component that is used with extrinsic forecasting?
- A. Moving average
- B. Exponential smoothing
- C. A seasonal index
- D. An economic indicator
Answer : D
The question below is based on the following information:
What is the mean absolute deviation of demand for the data?
- A. 1
- B. 3
- C. 5
- D. 101
Answer : B
Which of the following factors is most likely to affect the demand for a company's services or products?
A. The sales and operations plan
B. Demand forecasting -
C. Resource availability -
D. Economic conditions -
Answer : D Topic 3, Transformation of Demand into Supply
Material requirements planning requires which of the following files to plan requirements?
- A. Standard cost
- B. Bill of materials
- C. Routing
- D. Work center
Answer : B
A work center has 2 machines that are operated 16 hours a day for 5 days a week.
Historically, the utilization has been 85% and the efficiency 105%. What is the rated capacity for this work center? (Rounded)
- A. 71
- B. 99
- C. 130
- D. 143
Answer : D
Which of the following phrases best defines a production plan?
- A. The plan for the production and purchase of the components used in making the items in the master production schedule
- B. The broad direction of the firm, the kind of business-product lines, and markets the firm wants in the future
- C. The quantities of each product group that must be produced in each period, desired inventory levels, resources required in each period, and the availability of resources needed
- D. The flow of work through the factory through input/output analysis
Answer : C
Which of the following documents is generated to show required components for a shop order?
- A. Master production schedule
- B. Bill of materials
- C. Picking list
- D. Advance shipping notice
Answer : C
Which of the following techniques deals with analysis and planning of logistics and manufacturing during various time periods?
- A. Advanced planning and scheduling
- B. Aggregate planning
- C. Aggregate forecast
- D. Distribution Requirements Planning
Answer : A
Which of the following capacity management techniques is used to support the production plan?
- A. Resource planning
- B. Capacity requirements planning
- C. Rough-cut capacity planning
- D. Input/output control
Answer : A
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