Apics CPIM Section A Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Paperless (electronic) exchange
documents, such as purchase orders, shipment authorizations, advanced shipment notices, and
invoices, using standardized formats
Lean production - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A philosophy of production that emphasizes the
minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities of the
enterprise. It involves identifying and eliminating non-value-adding activities in design, production,
supply chain management, and dealing with customers.
U-lines - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Production lines shaped like the letter "U." The shape allows
workers to easily perform several non-sequential tasks without much walk time. The number of
workstations in a u-line is usually determined by line balancing.
MURI - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A Japanese word meaning strain or overburden.
Materials Management - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Grouping of management functions supporting the
complete cycle of material flow from the purchase and internal control of production materials to
the planning and control of work in process to the warehousing, shipping, distribution of the
finished product.
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,Postponement - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A product design or supply chain strategy that deliberately
delays final differentiation (assembly, production, packaging, tagging, etc.) until the latest possible
time in the process.
Genchi Genbutsu - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A Japanese phrase meaning to visit the shop floor to
observe what is occurring.
Make to Order - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A production environment where a good or service can be
made after receipt of a customers order. The final product is usually a combination of standard
items, and items custom-designed to meet the special needs of the customer.
Participative design/engineering - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A concept that refers to the simultaneous
participation of all the functional areas of the firm in the product design activity. Suppliers and
customers are often also included.
Order Winners - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Those competitive characteristics that cause a firms
customers to choose that firms goods and services over those of its competitors.
Purchasing Lead Time - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Total lead time required to obtain a purchased item.
Included here are order preparation and release time; supplier lead time; transportation time; and
receiving, inspection, and put-away time.
Component - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The raw material, part, or sub-assembly that goes into a
higher-level assembly, compound, or other item. May also include packaging materials for finished
items.
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, Delivery Lead Time - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The time from the receipt of a customer order to the
delivery of the product.
Gantt Chart - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The earliest and best-known type of planning and control
chart, especially designed to show graphically the relationship between planned performance and
actual performance over time.
Closed-loop MRP - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A system built around material requirements planning
that includes the additional planning processes of production planning (sales and operations
planning), master production scheduling, and capacity requirements planning. Once this planning
phase is complete and the plans have been accepted as realistic and attainable, the execution
processes come into play. These processes include the manufacturing control processes of input-
output (capacity) measurement, detailed scheduling and dispatching, as well as anticipated delay
reports from both the plant and suppliers, supplier scheduling, and so on. The term closed loop
implies not only that each of these processes is included in the overall system, but also that feedback
is provided by the execution processes so that the planning can be kept valid at all times.
Cellular Manufacturing - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A manufacturing process that produces families of
parts within a single line or cell of machines controlled by operators who work only within the line
or cell.
supply chain - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The global network used to deliver products and services
from raw materials to end customers through an engineered flow of information, physical
distribution, and cash.
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Questions and Answers
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Paperless (electronic) exchange
documents, such as purchase orders, shipment authorizations, advanced shipment notices, and
invoices, using standardized formats
Lean production - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A philosophy of production that emphasizes the
minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities of the
enterprise. It involves identifying and eliminating non-value-adding activities in design, production,
supply chain management, and dealing with customers.
U-lines - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Production lines shaped like the letter "U." The shape allows
workers to easily perform several non-sequential tasks without much walk time. The number of
workstations in a u-line is usually determined by line balancing.
MURI - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A Japanese word meaning strain or overburden.
Materials Management - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Grouping of management functions supporting the
complete cycle of material flow from the purchase and internal control of production materials to
the planning and control of work in process to the warehousing, shipping, distribution of the
finished product.
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,Postponement - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A product design or supply chain strategy that deliberately
delays final differentiation (assembly, production, packaging, tagging, etc.) until the latest possible
time in the process.
Genchi Genbutsu - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A Japanese phrase meaning to visit the shop floor to
observe what is occurring.
Make to Order - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A production environment where a good or service can be
made after receipt of a customers order. The final product is usually a combination of standard
items, and items custom-designed to meet the special needs of the customer.
Participative design/engineering - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A concept that refers to the simultaneous
participation of all the functional areas of the firm in the product design activity. Suppliers and
customers are often also included.
Order Winners - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Those competitive characteristics that cause a firms
customers to choose that firms goods and services over those of its competitors.
Purchasing Lead Time - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Total lead time required to obtain a purchased item.
Included here are order preparation and release time; supplier lead time; transportation time; and
receiving, inspection, and put-away time.
Component - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The raw material, part, or sub-assembly that goes into a
higher-level assembly, compound, or other item. May also include packaging materials for finished
items.
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, Delivery Lead Time - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The time from the receipt of a customer order to the
delivery of the product.
Gantt Chart - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The earliest and best-known type of planning and control
chart, especially designed to show graphically the relationship between planned performance and
actual performance over time.
Closed-loop MRP - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A system built around material requirements planning
that includes the additional planning processes of production planning (sales and operations
planning), master production scheduling, and capacity requirements planning. Once this planning
phase is complete and the plans have been accepted as realistic and attainable, the execution
processes come into play. These processes include the manufacturing control processes of input-
output (capacity) measurement, detailed scheduling and dispatching, as well as anticipated delay
reports from both the plant and suppliers, supplier scheduling, and so on. The term closed loop
implies not only that each of these processes is included in the overall system, but also that feedback
is provided by the execution processes so that the planning can be kept valid at all times.
Cellular Manufacturing - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A manufacturing process that produces families of
parts within a single line or cell of machines controlled by operators who work only within the line
or cell.
supply chain - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The global network used to deliver products and services
from raw materials to end customers through an engineered flow of information, physical
distribution, and cash.
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