Exam 12: Managing Production Across the Supply Chain

An operations manager should be able to take the master schedules and add them up to arrive at the inventory and production levels in the sales and operations plan.

What organizational disciplines are required in order for an organization to successfully run a material requirements planning system?

Using the information in the table, determine a schedule for these five jobs using the critical ratio sequence. Job Process Time Due Date A 2 7 B 8 16 C 4 4 D 10 17 E 5 15

In distribution requirements planning the MRP records do not use the term gross requirements; instead the amount is shown as:

There were five jobs left before Saba could call it quits after a distinguished 30-year career in higher education. If he decides to do them in critical ratio order, what is the average lateness? Job Process Time Due Date Job 1 12 23 Job 2 21 44 Job 3 18 34 Job 4 17 38 Job 5 11 27

-According to the table above.What is Projected ending inventory for Front Leg Assemblies in Week 3

Consider the product structure tree shown below: Assume that the company using this product structure tree has 5 items each at the 0 level, 10 items each at the 1 level and 20 items each at the 2 level. How many units of A, B, and E will the company need to acquire in order to ship an order of 20 X's?

________ translates the sales and operations plan into specifics by product and establishes when each customer order will be fulfilled.

An MRP system cannot answer the question:

Cow Company used the master schedule to monitor key resource requirements, such as determining how many workers and the number of machine hours would be needed for each production period. This approach is known as ________.

MRP is NOT capable of:

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

Confirmed demand for products is called ________ in master scheduling.

RFID tags can be used to trace the movement and location of materials.

A(n)________ is a record or graphical rendering that shows how all the subassemblies, intermediates, parts, and raw materials are put together to make the Level 0 item.

Throughout every MRP record, ending inventory is equal to the ending inventory from the previous period, plus the master production schedule quantity, minus the orders booked for that period.

On the master schedule record, the amount of product that will be finished and available for sale at the beginning of each week is the:

If a job has a negative critical ratio then it must be early.

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? 1 2 3 4 5 Gross Requirements 500 450 400 500 300 Scheduled receipts 100 100 100 100 100 Projected ending Inventory Net Requirements Planned Receipts 450 400 300 300 Planned Orders 300 300

The process of ________ occurs when a planner works backwards from the master production schedule and the product structure tree to determine when all parts and subassemblies must be ordered and assembled in order to meet MPS due dates.