Exam 10: Production planning and control for remanufacturing

Which of the following statements regarding the Core Acquisition Study of Automobile Parts Industry is correct? 1)The industry uses advanced forecasting techniques 2)The industry does no heavily employ statistical or mathematical techniques for planning and control 3)The majority of the cores purchased from 3rd party brokers have a quality guarantee 4)Product trade-ins are the main source for cores

Which of the following product categories are not well suited for remanufacturing?

In the remanufacturing process, the MPS signals retrieval from the finish goods inventory.When the finished goods inventory is not sufficient to meet the demand, you should ___________________________________.Fill in the blanks correctly.

What is the response of the remanufacturing managers to the shortage of cores?

Choose the correct remanufacturing path for a good quality core.

Which of the following are recommendations given by the Core Acquisition Study of Automobile Parts Industry? 1)Forecast product return rates 2)Do not depend on statistical or mathematical techniques for planning and control 3)Improve long-term forecast accuracy 4)Focus on developing Arm's length supplier relationships

Is it common for the quality of the cores purchased from 3rd party brokers to be known by the remanufacturer? Provide an explanation.

Describe remanufacturing is one sentence.

For remanufactured products, the demand is dependent on the sales of previous new products.What manufacturing and control activities are directly influenced by this fact? 1)Forecasting demands 2)New product sales 3)Core acquisition 4)Core disassembly

List at least 3 benefits of using remanufactured products.