Exam 21: Master Scheduling and Material Requirements Planning

Item A has a lead time of 2 weeks and requires two units of Item B and three units of Item C.Item B has a lead time of 4 weeks; Item C has a lead time of 1 week.What should the planning horizon of the MRP be?

A method of representing the product hierarchy of a BOM file is the ______.

Operations plans in the medium to short term are done during ______.

When a company has a reputation of being environmentally unfriendly,______.

Which of the following is an output of MRP?

The master schedule ______.

The focus of the master schedule in an MTO production environment is ______.

The process of dividing the master scheduling planning horizon to allow for different rules for making changes is called ______.

What is the most important factor in choosing a lot-sizing technique?

Which of the following reports call for a manager's attention to major problems?

The production plan or procurement plan for raw materials and components for dependent demand items is done in ______.

The production plan or procurement plan for raw materials and components for independent demand items is done in ______.

Sufficiency of capacity for the output of the master schedule is checked during ______.

Materials requirements planning deals with products at what level?

An exception report is a ______ of the MRP process.

Updating or replanning the MRP records is performed periodically in which type of system?

In order for MRP implementation to be successful,______.

With regard to capacity planning,the difference between an integrated MRP-JIT system and an only-MRP system is that ______.

In lot-for-lot lot sizing,______.

The changes in firm planned orders ______.