Distribution includes both warehousing and transportation functions.
In general, crashing costs decrease as a project’s duration is systematically reduced to a
target value.
The level strategy for adjusting capacity is only appropriate when there is no variation
in demand.
Deming believed that only suppliers are responsible for improving quality.
Capacity can be increased in one large step or incrementally.
Setup time is not a component of the cumulative lead time for a manufactured product.
Correlation in linear regression is a measure of the strength of the relationship between
the dependent variable, demand, and an independent (explanatory) variable.
In a lean production system, kanban systems have been shown to handle large
fluctuations in production requirements on the final assembly line with no problem.
Supply chain management (SCM) software plans and executes business processes
related to a manufacturing firm.
The maximum amount of time a product spends at any workstation is known as the
bottleneck time.
The quantities reported on a master production schedule may reflect a combination of
actual and forecasted demand.
Two team approaches to quality improvement are quality circles and process
improvement teams.
Companies that compete on winnovation establish a corporate culture that discourages
risk taking.
The assignment method of linear programming can be used to determine the best
allocation of jobs to machines or workers to tasks.
______________ focus(es) the organization on common goals that can be translated
into measurable objectives.
a. Order winners
b. Core competency
c. Positioning
d. Deploying the strategy
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a control chart?
a. the centerline is determined using special cause (nonrandom) variations.
b. the upper and lower control limits are based on special cause (nonrandom) variation.
c. the centerline is determined by using the target value.
d. None of these answer choices is correct.
Which of the following is not an objective of effective layouts?
a. reduce material handling costs
b. increase the number of bottlenecks
c. eliminate waste and redundant activities
d. improve communication and interaction among workstations
______________ is the scheduling and monitoring of day-to-day production in a job
shop.
a. Loading
b. Load Leveling
c. Dispatching
d. Shop floor control
The scheduling rule that minimizes the makespan time for a set of jobs that must be
processed through a two-step system where every job follows the same sequence
through the two processes is
a. the shortest processing time (SPT).
b. Johnson’s Rule.
c. the assignment method.
d. the minimal slack rule.
A production process consists of the following four stages with the average percentage
of good quality at each stage as shown.
What is the daily production yield for the company if daily input is 200 units?
a. 192 units
b. 188 units
c. 184 units
d. 156 units
As process selection moves up the diagonal from project to continuous production
a. demand volume increases.
b. product variety increases.
c. capital intensity decreases.
d. flexibility increases.
Carefully dismantling and inspecting a competitor’s product to look for design features
that can be incorporated into your own product is known as
a. concurrent design.
b. design for manufacturability.
c. benchmarking.
d. reverse engineering.
Companies resist establishing green supply chains for all the following reasons except
that
a. the market is soft for products with green attributes.
b. green manufacturing requires costly new equipment and practice.
c. green initiatives lower costs because fewer resources are consumed.
d. green practices face additional government, societal and cultural pressures.
Which of the following is not an example of inventory carried to satisfy independent
demand?
a. spare parts
b. finished product
c. raw materials
d. All the answer choices are correct.
Fault tree analysis (FTA) is
a. a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
b. a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
c. a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
d. a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design
requirements.
The formulas for determining the upper and lower control limits are based on the
number of standard deviations, z, from the process average. Management usually
selects a z value of _______.
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. six
Four products (1, 2, 3, and 4) must be processed on one of four machines (A, B, C, and
D). The times required in minutes for each product on each machine are shown below.
If management wishes to assign products to machines so that the total time to complete
all the products is minimized, then Product 4 is assigned to
a. machine A.
b. machine B.
c. machine C.
d. machine D.
Landed cost includes
a. value added tax.
b. duties.
c. customs.
d. All of these answer choices are correct.
_________________ provides the information to regulate the flow of work to and from
a network of work centers.
a. A dispatch list
b. Input/output control
c. A Gantt chart
d. Drum-buffer-rope
Spend analysis strives to
a) reduce procurement costs.
b) improve the efficiency of the procurement process.
c) reduce procurement costs and improve the efficiency of the procurement process.
d) None of these answer choices is correct.
Supply chain processes include
a. procurement.
b. production.
c. distribution.
d. All of these answer choices are correct.
Given the demand and forecast values below, the naïve forecast for September is
a. 100.6.
b. 99.0.
c. 102.0.
d. cannot be determined.