According to the article "Crafting and Executing Strategy" by Thompson, Strickland and gamble, which of the following are NOT identified as one of the generic competitive strategies that can be used to give a company a competitive advantage?

Forecast information used in the sales and operations planning process is updated

The sales forecast is disaggregate into individual forecasts at the distribution center level. This may result in

Which of the following types of production environments is most likely to have customer, forecast and distribution demand?

The next step in the planning hierarchy after the business plan is the

Which of the following statements is true of the relationship between the production plan and the resource plan?

Subassemblies and options need to be master scheduled separately from the end item in which of the following environments?

Which of the following interfaces deals primarily with translating monetary units into product families for planning purposes?

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

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

Period J F M A M J J A S O N D
Inventory plan 20 30 30 40 30 10 10 10 20 30 40 40
What is the most likely reason for having any inventory in June in the information provided?

Period 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Forecast 20 21 20 22 24 262 28 28
Customer PO 19 20 21 21 25 24 20 18
PAB 20
ATP
MPS 50 50 50 50
Using the information provided, what is the available to promise quantity in period 2?

Collaborating with customers to provide forecast information result in