Question

1.Which of the following manufacturing strategies relies mostly on forecasted demand?

       a.Engineer-to-Order

       b.Make-to-Order

       c.Assemble-to-Order

       d.Make-to-Plan

2.Sam's Logistics has been asked to perform the last stage of a production process by Hackory Farms: putting together final gift box assortments of sausage, cheese, and crackers. Which of the following manufacturing strategies best describes this scenario of "form postponement"?

       a.Engineer-to-Order

       b.Make-to-Order

       c.Assemble-to-Order

       d.Make-to-Plan

3.Which of the following companies WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT incorporate mass customization as a manufacturing strategy?

       a.Dell

       b.Reebok

       c.Mars

       d.Lockheed Martin

4.Which of the following production set-up operations would be considered an internal setup activity?

       a.Investigating a quicker way to perform a setup on an a machine designed for training only

       b.Making repairs to a cutting die offsite.

       c.Stopping the machine to get supervisor approval before changing to another job

       d.Performing preventive maintenance on a machine during normal shutdown hours prior to a new job being ran

5.Which of the following production set-up operations would be considered an external setup activity?

       a.Removing any scrap or by-products from a machine before a new production run

       b.Checking the first or second output from a new production item for defects

       c.Making modifications to a tool/die while the machine is running another job

       d.Installing a die onto a machine in order to run a new product

6.All of the following are true about the six-sigma program EXCEPT:

       a.Six-sigma processes produce only 3.4 defects per million parts

       b.Motorola was an early developer of the six-sigma approach

       c.More important than the absolute goal are the quality improvement processes

       d.Most business attain six-sigma levels of quality after program implementation

7.All of the following are required components for Sales and Operations Planning EXCEPT:

       a.Business Plan

       b.Sales Plan

       c.Resource Plan

       d.Merchandising Plan

8.Which one of the following objectives is NOT normally associated with the operations function?

       a.Few products

       b.Long leadtimes

       c.Long production runs

       d.Rapid response

9.The "black box" of the Advanced Planning System (APS) is formally known as:

       a.Resource allocation

       b.Resource management

       c.Requirements optimization

       d.Demand management

10.The resource allocation module that allows planners to pinpoint a date in the future on which to commit scheduled production to customers is known as:

       a.Forecast-to-promise (FTP)

       b.Configure-to-promise (CTP)

       c.Engineer-to-promise (ETP)

       d.Available-to-promise (ATP)

11.All of the following are examples of customer demand used for computing periodic logistics demand EXCEPT:

       Forecasts

       Customer orders

       Inventory-on-hand

       Promotions

12.The "bolt-on" or "best-of-breed" option for supply chain planning systems refers to which one of the following statements?

       a.A firm designs its own system using its own internal resources

       b.A firm purchases a comprehensive ERP system (e.g. SAP, Oracle, etc.) that includes an SCM planning system

       c.A firm purchases a separate SCM planning system and attaches it to its enterprise-wide system

       d.A firm indicates to its stockholders that SCM is over-hyped and no system is required.

Answer 1

1. Make to order relies mostly on forecasted demand.

2. Make to order describes the scenario of form postponement.

3. Lockheed Martin didn't incorporate mass customization.

4. Performing preventive maintenance on a machine during normal shutdown hours prior to a new job being ran- Internal setup activity

5. Making modifications to a tool/die while the machine is running another job. - External activity

6. Motorola was an early developer of the six-sigma approach

7. Business Plan is not part of sales and operations plan.

8. Few products

9. Requirements optimization

10. Forecast-to-promise (FTP)

11.Customer orders

12. A firm purchases a comprehensive ERP system (e.g. SAP, Oracle, etc.) that includes an SCM planning system