Focus on the customer underlies the execution of an organization's strategy. - Answers True
Which of the following has a planning horizon within 6-18 months? - Answers Aggregate
Planning
The aggregate planning contains critical information to guide lower-level scheduling and is the
starting point of business planning - Answers False
The master production scheduling is updated every semester. - Answers False
Which of the following is used to align plans within your company? - Answers S&OP
Aggregate planning helps you align your production capacity to market demand. - Answers True
Which of the following is not a capacity-focused option to match supply and demand? -
Answers Backorders
For seasonal products and services, the best option to align supply and demand is to build
inventory. - Answers False
Which of the following is a demand-focused option to match supply and demand? - Answers
Backorders
Backordering is a good option to match supply and demand because it has no trade-offs. -
Answers False
Members of a product family all use the same set of production resources. - Answers True
You overhear your colleagues in the production area say that, for next month, they need to
produce 1,000 products of model A in the color red and 500 in the color blue, and 500 products
model B in the color red and another 500 in the color green. Therefore, we can conclude that
they are talking about the aggregate planning for next month. - Answers False
In the __________ strategy, you can manipulate _________ to match supply and demand. - Answers
Chase; workforce size
You measure the capacity of your production process based on the process bottleneck. -
Answers True
In aggregate planning, you need to consider how your strategy will affect other key dimensions
of performance, not only costs. - Answers True
The center of gravity model requires that you place locations on a grid coordinate system. -
Answers True
The core benefit of an ERP system is that it: - Answers Offers a single source of truth because it
, stores all data in one place
Keeping the old systems alive in parallel during the transition to a new ERP system can help
mitigate the downsides of unpredictability during implementation. - Answers True
An ERP system is a set of distributed databases surrounded by application programs that take
data from the database and either conduct analysis or collect additional data for the firm. -
Answers False
Simply applying ERP over existing processes is one of the challenges in implementing an ERP
system. - Answers True
Production control decisions determine the flow of work into and through the production
process. - Answers True
In Shortest Processing Time, you process the order with the earliest due date. - Answers False
The great thing about removing one constraint from the system is that the system no longer has
resources limiting the capacity of the system. - Answers False
In the DBR scheduling approach, the "drum" refers to the process of synchronizing the schedule
of all other resources. - Answers False
Anyone who has access to the Gantt chart can quickly see how resources are being allocated. -
Answers True
When your manufacturing planning and control system is working well, you save money for the
company at the expense of compromising customers' needs. - Answers False
By communicating what needs to be done to meet customers' real needs, your strategic
business plan provides the starting point for all functional planning—including supply chain
planning. - Answers True
When ski resorts offer gondola rides, hikes, mountain bike trails, and fine dining in the summer,
they are using which of the following tool sets to match supply and demand? - Answers Demand
-focused tools
Suppose you set up a hotdog truck near a football stadium. On game days, you decide to hire
your best friend to help you in the kitchen, while you work by yourself on other days. This would
be an example for deploying which of the strategic options to align capacity to demand? -
Answers Chase strategy
You overhear your colleagues in the production area say that, for next month, they need to
produce 1,000 products of model A in the color red and 500 in the color blue, and 500 products
model B in the color red and another 500 in the color green. Therefore, we can conclude that
they are talking about the aggregate planning for next month. - Answers False