Exam 6: Operations Producing Goods and Services

Routing flexibility is a term used in connection with how spare parts move through the supply chain.

Capacity requirements planning is used to check the feasibility of the materials requirement plan.

The "bullwhip" effect occurs when forecast errors are magnified and demand variability increases as orders move upstream from retailers to distributors to producers.

Explain one of the following in detail: workcenter, manufacturing cell, assembly line, or continuous process facilities.

Offshoring is a term that means relocating an activity to a contract manufacturer in another country.

Which of the following types of production processes use tools and equipment that are generalized in nature?

Discuss the three planning timeframes, how they relate to capacity planning and materials planning, and the various tools associated with them.

Lean production relies on:

In assemble-to-order production:

Processes that can produce a range of products are said to have economies of scope.

Companies now use strategies that are lean, flexible, or adaptive; they wait for customers to push products to the market.

A project layout is:

In an MRP system, this document identifies all of the components required to assemble an independent demand item.

What is the "bullwhip effect," and how does it affect manufacturing?

Resource requirements planning (RRP) is a long-run, macro-level planning tool.

Processes that can produce a range of products are said to have:

The materials requirement plan (MRP) is a long-range materials plan that converts information regarding end-items in the MPS into a set of time-phased component and part requirements.