Which of the following statements about production planning is true?

A firm uses the level production planning approach to produce a product family to stock.
Senior management has requested that the finished-goods inventory for the product family
be reduced by 18% over the sales and operations planning horizon. Which of the following
statements best describes the relationship between total demand and total production
required for the product family over the planning horizon?

Which of the following inputs to the demand planning phase of sales and operations
planning typically is most important for a product line that is made to customer order?

In a make-to-order environment, if cumulative production exceeds cumulative demand,
which of the following outcomes will result?

The greatest risk of aggregating product families at too high of a level for sales and
operations planning is that:

Which of the following forecasting methods is most appropriate for projecting demand for a
product family?

Sales and operations planning in a make-to-stock environment is concerned with projecting

Production is being planned to emphasize the utilization of a critical and very expensive
piece of capital equipment. Which of the following production planning strategies should be
used?

In an assemble-to-order environment, which of the following indicators is most appropriate
for measuring the effectiveness of the master scheduling process?

If the master production schedule is overstated, which of the following short-term actions is most appropriate?

In a capacity-constrained situation, which of the following actions is best to take if marketing wants to increase production of a master schedule item?