Sales has identified an opportunity to develop a new market for a product family and requested an increase in the production plan. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate in this situation?

A manufacturing system is characterized by the emergence of standard designs, price competition and the importance of process development. It is in which of the following stages of the life cycle?

Which of the following statements about inventory is true in an ETO environment

When buying capital equipment, the large payment is typically followed by a series of smaller receipts or inflows recognized as either additional revenue or

Improvement programs at a manufacturing company have increased efficiency 10% and utilization 5%, what is the effect on the theoretical capacity?

What issue is often overlooked when an organization eliminates a product line?

If a company changes to activity-based costing, which of the following traditional measures will be affected?
I. Direct labor costs
II. Profit before taxes and depreciation
III. Allocation of overhead cost
IV. Unit product cost

A company competes in an industry that serves other manufactures, their customer play a significant role in defining requirement and most products have a 7-10 year life. The most likely advantage a company in this industry would realize from having a fast product service design process is that it can:

Using phantom BOM will result in which of the following?

An error in the demand forecast trend over several years will have the greatest impact on which of the following processes?

A major difference between an APS system and a traditional planning system is that an APS system includes the use of