All manufacturing companies should run a resource requirements plan at the production plan level. However, many companies should also run a rough cut capacity plan at the MPS level as well. Which of the following types of companies should also run a rough cut capacity plan at the MPS level?

A direct handoff from one operation to the next such as a customer and supplier located in the same facility will

A company has a number of products that are similar, but are subject to unstable demand patterns. The company desire to implement a program to reduce inventory investment while providing a maximum 3-day customer order turnaround. Which of the following manufacturing environment is most applicable to meet that goal?

Variations in product design, process requirements, or order quantities, require which of the following manufacturing processes?

All of the following are considerations in the adoption of a process focus EXCEPT the

Which of the following production layouts will most likely contain dedicated lines?

Which of following capabilities of finite loading is most important in an environment where routings use many of the same work centers?

Which of the following actions should dispatcher perform in an environment where there is excess capacity, in order to meet a shortage at a downstream operation?

Overlapping is used to compress lead time by

Which of the following elements would have the most impact on reducing manufacturing lead time?

The following information is available for a work center. It is now day 150. Using the priority rule of critical ratio, what is the desired job sequence?
Job Arrival sequence Processing hours Date due Work days remaining
A 1 5 156 4
B 3 3 153 3
C 2 2 152 1
D 4 4 152 3
E 5 1 155 2