Allowances for scrap/yield estimates in the manufacture of a component require over planning of

What type of system BEST describes when an external manufacturing company is supplying an assembly plant where the supplier collects and refills containers every day?

Which of the following are included in the purpose for Lean Manufacturing?
1. To eliminate wasted time, effort and material
2. To provide customers with make to order products
3. To reduce cost while improving quality

A typical ERP BOM module consists of what?
1. MRP Explosion
2. Item master file
3. BOM

In order to achieve effective capacity management, which of the following needs to be in place in a company?
1. A cost accounting system to capture variance;
2. A material control system
3. A shop floor control system which provides accountability

Inventory control can be improved by adopting which of the following storeroom practices?
1. Calculating EOQs to determine quantities to issue
2. Initiating a cycle-counting system
3. Making the storeroom off-limits to all except storeroom personnel;
4. Maintaining parallel record systems to cross-check balances;

Which of the following are obstacles to the implementations of JIT?
1. Management does not allow employees to be involved
2. The factory takes on too many projects rather than continuous improvement
3. Spending on education and training is limited

Which of the following terms or philosophies are synonymous with zero inventories?
1. JIT;
2. Stockless production
3. Zero defects

When the MPS is overstated, priorities may become unclear because:
1. Valid due dates will not be listed on the dispatch lists;
2. Quantities needed will not be valid;
3. Dispatch lists will have split routings;

Which of the following statements are true regarding infinite loading?
1. The technique is valid although the name is misleading;
2. The technique is now known as capacity requirements planning;
3. It is also know as operations scheduling;

Which of the following best describes the forward scheduling technique?
1. Begins with a known start date and calculates a completion date for an order;
2. Dates generated are earliest start dates for each operation;
3. Ordered are loaded for each operation, first to last;