Exam 13: Managing Production Across the Supply Chain

Given the forecast and booked orders shown in the table,and a beginning inventory of 0,what is the available to promise inventory for the period 3? There are no LOT quantity constraints.

Component J is ordered on February 1,is received,and is ready to use on February 8.Its planning lead time is seven days.

Given the forecast and booked orders shown in the table,and a beginning inventory of 20,what is the available to promise inventory for the first period? There are no LOT quantity constraints.

________ is a tool that can be used to synchronize supply chain partners at the master production schedule level.

A manufacturing concern enters the new year with a forecast and customer orders as shown in the table.They have a beginning inventory of 25 units and a batch size of 25 units (all MPS quantities must be in multiples of 25).Complete the rest of the master production schedule by filling in the projected ending inventory,master production schedule quantity,and available to promise rows

If a manufacturer had no inventory of any kind but had orders for 10 finished units of their sole product,their buyer would know what parts to order if they were supplied with a:

An MRP system cannot answer the question:

Given the forecast and booked orders shown in the table,and a beginning inventory of 25,what is the master production schedule quantity for period 4?

Which step comes first in sales and operations planning?

In a bill of material,a parent may have many children but a child may have only one parent.

A time-phased planning approach that uses planned orders at the point of demand to determine forecasted demand at the source level is:

Cow Company used the master schedule to determine how many workers and the number of machine hours would be needed for each production period.This approach is known as ________.

Calculate the average lateness using the earliest due date criterion to determine the schedule for these five jobs.

Which of the following statements regarding master production scheduling calculations is BEST?

There are six jobs that are awaiting processing at a machining center.The jobs are shown in the table with their processing time and scheduled completion time.Schedule the jobs by earliest due date,shortest processing time and the critical ratio rule and calculate average lateness for all the jobs.Which scheduling technique performs BEST?

There is no beginning inventory.What are the net requirements in week 4 if there is a scheduled receipt of 100 units each week and a two week production lead time?