Increasing the level of responsibility of a job by adding planning and coordination tasks
is ___________.
a) job enlargement
b) job rotation
c) job involvement
d) job enrichment
e) job backward integration
If using CR as the priority rule, which of the following jobs will be scheduled first?
a) the first job arrives at a work center
b) the job with the least slack per remaining operations
c) the job with the highest slack per remaining operations
d) the job with the smallest ratio of time remaining until due date to process time
remaining
e) the job with the largest ratio of time remaining until due date to process time
remaining
Deming believed that __________ is the key to improving quality.
a) Employee training
b) Process design
c) Properly functioning equipment
d) Having good suppliers
e) Improving the system
Which of the following is not true for action notices that are produced by MRP
systems?
a) An action notice is produced when a planned order needs to be released.
b) An action notice is produced when due dates of orders need to be adjusted.
c) An action notice is produced when the lead time is not sufficient for a planned order.
d) An action notice is produced when inventory is moved to the manufacturing floor.
e) They indicate actions that need to be taken by inventory planners.
Which famous economist once suggested that, ‘The production problem has been
solved.’?
a) John Nash
b) Irving Fisher
c) John Kenneth Galbraith
d) Adam Smith
e) John Maynard Keynes
Consider the following partial MPS record. Beginning inventory is 40 units. The firm
uses a fixed order quantity of 70 units. What is the projected available amount in period
2?
a) 55
b) 15
c) 70
d) 50
e) 125
In Excel, which function takes a range of values as its input and returns the smallest
value from that range?
a) INF
b) SMALL
c) LITTLE
d) MIN
e) LOW
In order to be successful with Web-based on-line shopping, companies must do all
except which of the following?
a) manage distribution centers and warehouses
b) operate fleets of trucks
c) maintain adequate inventories of products
d) promise same-day delivery
e) schedule deliveries
Which forecasting method suffers from the possibility of having one person’s opinion
dominate the forecast?
a) Market research
b) Executive opinion
c) Delphi method
d) Naïve method
e) Gamma method
In product screening, issues such as, ‘What is the market size?’ and ‘What is the long
term-product potential?’ are addressed by:
a) marketing
b) finance
c) engineering
d) operations
e) accounting
Last week Jason painted 11 houses in 4 days. This week he painted 14 houses in 5 days.
What was his percent productivity increase?
a) 1.82%
b) 1.79%
c) 27.27%
d) 25.00%
e) 5.00%
Which of the following is more like a product layout as compared to a process layout?
a) Resources used are general purpose.
b) Facilities are less capital intensive.
c) Processing rates are slower.
d) Space requirements for inventory storage are higher.
e) Scheduling resources is less challenging.
Services with low customer contact are called _____________ .
a) quasi-manufacturing
b) quasi-services
c) mixed services
d) pure services
e) mixed manufacturing
A model __________ inputs into ______.
a) estimates, transformation
b) transformation, estimates
c) transforms, outputs
d) makes, parameters
e) modifies, decision variables
Which of the following is not typically considered to be a core competency?
a) workforce
b) mission
c) market understanding
d) technology
e) facilities
There are four activities on the critical path, and they have standard deviations of 1, 2,
4, and 2. The standard deviation of the critical path is ______.
a) 3
b) 5
c) 9
d) 16
e) 25
If suppliers meet preset quality standards, materials
a) will need minimal arrival inspections
b) will still require full arrival inspections
c) will be package in special approved containers
d) do not have to be inspection upon arrival
e) will be paid for at a premium cost
The next level down in the planning process after development of the aggregate plan is
the _____________.
a) materials requirements plan
b) engineering plan
c) rough-cut capacity plan
d) master production schedule
e) purchasing plan
Decision trees are useful when the alternatives are __________ and involve
__________
a) local, senior management
b) in parallel, certainty
c) in sequence, uncertainty
d) in sequence, certainty
e) in parallel, certainty
A p-chart is an example of what?
a) Traditional statistical tools
b) Fishbone diagramming
c) Acceptance sampling
d) Experimental design
e) Statistical process control
What is the total annual inventory cost (using basic EPQ )of a product whose annual
demand is 15,000 units, daily demand is 40, daily production is 60, order cost is $80,
and holding cost is $6? (Round to the nearest dollar.)
Why do larger-scale waiting line systems use discrete-event simulation?
What must companies focus on in order to survive in today’s business environment?
The textbook discusses that in the service industry it is not uncommon for retailers not
to be able to __________ specific merchandise.
Hoops, Inc., produces videos on the art of shooting in basketball. The firm has
experienced the following demand for the most recent four months.
Prepare an exponential smoothing forecast for July, using an value of .40. Initiate
the process by assuming that the forecast for March is 8,000 units.
Consider a workstation that can process 2 units per minute. It takes 6 minutes to receive
an order from the previous station. The container size is 12 units. The factory sets safety
stock at 20 percent of demand during lead time. How many kanbans are needed for the
workstation?
What are the guidelines for design for manufacture?
It is possible to solve a 2-variable problem with a __________________ to find an
optimal solution.