The question below is based on the distribution center requirements shown below: How many units of product X should be planned to satisfy the demand for period 6?
Lead time=2 periods
Lot size=20
SS=20
PD Period
1 2 3 4 5 6
Forecast 40 10 30 60 50 80
PAB 50 30 20 30 30
Planned receipt 20 0 40 60
Planned orders 40 60

Manufacturing is responsible for executing which of the plans that come from the sales and operations planning meeting?

A company monitors customer orders and inventory levels daily and generates production orders weekly. Those orders are processed the following week to maintain inventory at a fairly steady level. The production planning method used is

Which of the following statements is most true in a production environment with products that are subject to cyclical, random, seasonal and trend types of demand?

A company ships production weekly to their distribution centers. When reporting inventory levels at the end of the month for the sales and operations planning process, under which of the following categories should the inventory at the production facility be reported?

A disagreement between sales and production when modifying the sales and operations plan is most likely to be caused by

A company uses a chase production strategy to schedule production. A product family consist of 10 end items produced every month. 4 high volume units comprise 70% of total production. The 2 lowest volume units comprise only a very small percentage. How would the S&OP plan the items in this product family?

Period J F M A M J J A S O N D
Sales plan 50 50 60 60 80 90 70 50 40 40 40 40
Actual sales 51 48 64

Period J F M A M J J A S O N D
Production plan 50 60 60 70 70 70 70 50 50 50 50 40
Actual production 48 61 60

Period J F M A M J J A S O N D
Backlog plan 30 20 20 20 20 40 40 40 30 20 10 10
Actual backlog 30

What＇s the actual March backlog based on the information provided?

The production planning process uses which of the following time fences?

Stockouts have occurred to failures by suppliers to ship on schedule, causing extensive backorders. The past due orders were successfully reduced due to overtime once the parts arrived. The best approach for incorporating this information into the sales and operations planning process for the upcoming month is to

One reason for evaluating multiple sales and operations plans during the pre-S&OP meeting is