Exam 10: Operations Planning and Scheduling

________ is the situation that occurs when employees work longer than the regular workday or workweek.

Table 10.1 Bart Incorporated manufactures rotary air fans and uses a production-planning horizon of one-half year. It allows for regular time, part time, overtime, and subcontracting production to meet the demand but no more than 12 units may be made by each of these methods. Both anticipation inventory and backorders are allowed. The beginning (or current) inventory is 20 units. Their first attempt at a sales and operations plan has resulted in the following. -Use the information in Table 10.1. Which of these changes would result in the greatest improvement (in terms of total cost) for the production plan?

Table 10.1 Bart Incorporated manufactures rotary air fans and uses a production-planning horizon of one-half year. It allows for regular time, part time, overtime, and subcontracting production to meet the demand but no more than 12 units may be made by each of these methods. Both anticipation inventory and backorders are allowed. The beginning (or current) inventory is 20 units. Their first attempt at a sales and operations plan has resulted in the following. -Use the information in Table 10.1. Which of these changes would result in the greatest improvement (in terms of total cost) for the production plan?

A sales and operations plan is sometimes called a(n) ________.

________ is the amount of time by which a job missed its due date.

Table 10.10 A work center has the following six jobs waiting to be processed (all times are shown in days): -Use the information in Table 10.10. Which job will be the first one completed if scheduling is done using the first-come, first-served (FCFS) rule?

________ takes advantage of the tangible nature of manufactured goods to absorb uneven rates of supply and demand.

Table 10.1 Bart Incorporated manufactures rotary air fans and uses a production-planning horizon of one-half year. It allows for regular time, part time, overtime, and subcontracting production to meet the demand but no more than 12 units may be made by each of these methods. Both anticipation inventory and backorders are allowed. The beginning (or current) inventory is 20 units. Their first attempt at a sales and operations plan has resulted in the following. -Use the information in Table 10.1. According to the production plan, what is the unused overtime capacity in the fourth period?

Two basic types of decision alternatives are used to arrive at acceptable production or staffing plans: supply options and demand options. If an organization that faces seasonal demand uses a supply option approach, which one of the following actions is it most likely to implement?

A services firm's sales and operations plan generates both a production plan and a staffing plan.

One distinction between manufacturing and services that affects sales and operations plans is that services have difficulty creating inventories in anticipation of uneven demand.

Table 10.8 Suppose that the following eight jobs must be scheduled through a car repair facility (repair times are shown in days): -Use the information in Table 10.8 to answer this question. What car is repaired the latest (the most past due) if an EDD sequence is obeyed?

A(n) ________ is an order that cannot be satisfied when demanded and causes the customer to go elsewhere.

A customer is given a due date for their product order with:

Firms that are most likely to use backlogs tend to have a make-to-order strategy.

Earliest due date (EDD) is a priority-sequencing rule that states the job requiring the shortest processing time is the next job to be processed.

One type of cost considered when preparing a sales and operations plan is inventory holding cost.

A financial assessment of a for-profit organization's near future (for one or two years ahead) is a(n):

The terms "aggregate plan" and "sales and operations plan" are synonymous.

Pick any manufacturing organization and describe some supply options at their disposal.