The ability of a system to automatically trace the requirements for a given component up the bill structure to the source of the requirement is referred to as:

When using capacity planning to validate the material plan, which of the following information is most critical?

A call center operates with 130 customer service representatives, in an 8 hour period. The company receives 8000 calls per day and the average call takes 7 minutes, the utilization of the call center is

The amount of scheduled work ahead of a manufacturing facility expressed in terms of hours of work or units of production is called

Run time = 15 minutes per piece
Setup time = 1 hour
Queue time = 8 hours
Move time = 8 hours
Quantity of order = 28 pieces
Using the information provided, calculate the total capacity requirement for a work center in hours;

A new product is being introduced to the company＇s product mix, which will have an effect on the current period material plan due to the cumulative lead time of the purchased parts. Which of the following actions would be of immediate value to the material planner?

Utilization is the ratio of

A press is used to stamp left and right-hand door panels simultaneously from a roll of sheet metal. The relationship between those two parts is

Which of the following statements describes how capacity planning provides feedback to material planning for scheduling operations？

A scheduling technique that considers slack time to increase or decrease the calculated lead time of an order is

The ability of manufacturing to respond quickly to external or internal changes is