Engineering has suggested that a company＇s products would provide more value to customers if they were capable of identifying and automatically reporting problems to service and repair associates. The most likely effect of this strategy would be

Which of the following are included in a closed loop MRP system?
I. Master Production Scheduling
II. Capacity Requirement Planning
III. Purchasing

Period: 1 2 3 4 5
Forecast: 10 10 10 20 20
Orders: 8 6 6 2 2
PAB
MPS 30 0 0 0 0
On Hand 20
Based on the above MPS record, what is the non-cumulative ATP in Period 1?

Which of the following pieces of information must be available in order to prepare a realistic MPS?
I. Knowledge of all production requirements
II. Available capacity
III. Load profile of each MPS item

Which of the following statements are true regarding production planning?
I. It is senior management＇s responsibility.
II. The master scheduler should "disaggregate" the production plan to the master schedule.
III. It focuses corporate production goals.

If the master production schedule is overstated, which of the following will occur?

The frequency of revisions to a forecast should be:

Which of the following would be the best way to cope with the uncertainty of demand?

There are a multitude of customer measures in use today. Which of the following would best describe what should be measured?

The production plan needs to be expressed in meaningful units that everyone understands. It also needs to be expressed in a manageable number of units. The best number of product groups or families would be:

If a company would like to build up inventory to meet an expected seasonal demand, the inventory increase would first be loaded to the: