In today＇s manufacturing environment of eliminating waste, many companies are eliminating the purchase order because it does not add value for the customer. This is accomplished usually by replacing individual PO＇s with:

A company has few products but highly variable order quantities, and uses forward scheduling, using standard run hours as a basis for calculating completion dates is beneficial because

In an ATO environment, the execution and control function can help ensure a valid material plan by

Workloads between work centers might be redistributed by

A scheduling method for compressing lead time or to expedite a small quantity is

Infinite loading will indicate which of the following situations when comparing a gateway work center to a non-gateway non-bottleneck operation?

Which of the following elements of lead time is ignored by CRP?

In a job shop environment, which situation is optimal from a capacity planning perspective?

Theoretical capacity is most closely approached by

Which of the following actions would result in shorter purchasing lead times?

An ETO environment with fairly long lead times has a severely overloaded work center in the middle of the production process. Assuming deadlines cannot be changed, a simulation of the situation is most likely to