A company＇s customer is implementing lean initiatives, and have asked that the order receipt to ship time be reduced by 50%, this will have a significant impact on production and supporting departments. Which functional area should take the lead in evaluating this request and taking action?

At the end of physical inventory counting, the next thing that should be done is what?

What is the direct reflection of planned and actual lead time?

If customer demand is 250 a week and production available is 40 hours a week, what is the takt time?

An Aluminum supplier uses time period safety stock concept. Their policy is to have a half of a week＇s protection. Their current demand is 1000 units a week. The next period they forecast they will sell 750 units. How many units most be produced in the second time period?

Which of the following are inputs to Capacity Requirements Planning?
1. MRP
2. Work centers
3. Routing
4. Capacity requirement plan

What type of engineer is their function to produce a product at the right quality economically and consistently?

When looking at BOM, under APICS rules, assembly part numbers are shown as what?

Which of the following would be included in the item master file?
1. Manufacturing lead time
2. Quantity on order
3. Safety stock
4. Balance on hand

What type of scheduling uses a particular operation to schedule from?

Company ABC trying to calculate how much safety stock they should have for their highest selling product. With the follow information calculate the safety stock.
Standard deviation=25
Safety factor=4.00
Lead time=4 weeks
Forecast of 250 per week