Question 1

What is the typical time horizon for aggregate planning?

Accepted Answer

A) less than a month 
B) up to 3 months 
C) 3 to 18 months 
D) over one year 
E) over 5 years 
A) less than a month 
B) up to 3 months 
C) 3 to 18 months 
D) over one year 
E) over 5 years

Question 2

What is the effort to plan the coordination of demand forecasts with functional areas of the firm and its supply chain?

Accepted Answer

A) enterprise resource planning 
B) material requirements planning 
C) capacity planning 
D) sales and operations planning 
E) new product development 
A) enterprise resource planning 
B) material requirements planning 
C) capacity planning 
D) sales and operations planning 
E) new product development

Question 3

One of the four things needed for aggregate planning is a logical overall unit for measuring sales and output.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Which of these is among the demand options of aggregate planning?

Accepted Answer

A) subcontracting 
B) back-ordering during high-demand periods 
C) changing inventory levels 
D) varying workforce size 
E) varying production rates through overtime or idle time 
A) subcontracting 
B) back-ordering during high-demand periods 
C) changing inventory levels 
D) varying workforce size 
E) varying production rates through overtime or idle time

Question 5

Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is known to lower employee morale?

Accepted Answer

A) yield management 
B) counterseasonal product and service mixing 
C) changing inventory levels 
D) varying work force size by hiring or layoffs 
E) back ordering during high demand periods 
A) yield management 
B) counterseasonal product and service mixing 
C) changing inventory levels 
D) varying work force size by hiring or layoffs 
E) back ordering during high demand periods

Question 6

What directly results from disaggregation of an aggregate plan?

Accepted Answer

A) a master production schedule 
B) priority scheduling 
C) a transportation matrix 
D) a capacity-demand matrix 
E) detailed work schedules 
A) a master production schedule 
B) priority scheduling 
C) a transportation matrix 
D) a capacity-demand matrix 
E) detailed work schedules

Question 7

What is disaggregation?

Accepted Answer

Disaggregation is th

Question 8

Finding an ideal mixed strategy is complicated by the huge number of possible strategies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

To use revenue management strategies,a business should have which combination of costs?

Accepted Answer

A) high variable and high fixed 
B) low variable and high fixed 
C) high variable and low fixed 
D) low variable and low fixed 
E) either A or B 
A) high variable and high fixed 
B) low variable and high fixed 
C) high variable and low fixed 
D) low variable and low fixed 
E) either A or B

Question 10

Describe the advantages and limitations of the transportation method for aggregate planning.

Accepted Answer

Advantages include that it provides an o

Question 11

A hotel room that goes unrented,a dental appointment that no patient booked,and an airline seat that went unsold,are all examples of ________ in services.

Accepted Answer

perishable

Question 12

Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is a capacity option?

Accepted Answer

A) influencing demand by changing price 
B) counterseasonal product mixing 
C) influencing demand by extending lead times 
D) changing inventory levels 
E) influencing demand by back ordering 
A) influencing demand by changing price 
B) counterseasonal product mixing 
C) influencing demand by extending lead times 
D) changing inventory levels 
E) influencing demand by back ordering

Question 13

The use of part-time workers as an aggregate planning option may be less costly than using full-time workers,but it may also reduce quality levels.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

When developing an aggregate plan,one of the adjustable elements of capacity is the extent of subcontracting.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Osprey Fabrication has the following aggregate demand requirements and other data for the upcoming four quarters.
   Which of the following production plans is better: Plan A - chase demand by hiring and layoffs;
Plan B- pure level strategy,or Plan C - 1350 level with the remainder by subcontracting?

Accepted Answer

Plan A will cost $215,000,Plan B will co

Question 16

________ is a capacity option that works especially well in the service sector where labor needs are relatively unskilled.

Accepted Answer

Using part

Question 17

Which of the following would most likely fall under the scope of only an operations manager?

Accepted Answer

A) research and development 
B) new product plans 
C) capital investments 
D) facility location/capacity 
E) setting inventory levels 
A) research and development 
B) new product plans 
C) capital investments 
D) facility location/capacity 
E) setting inventory levels

Question 18

List,in order,the five steps of the graphical method of aggregate planning.Is it possible that these steps can be properly followed and the solution properly implemented without using a graph? Explain.

Accepted Answer

The steps are:
1.Determine the demand in

Question 19

Identify the five conditions that make revenue management of interest.

Accepted Answer

(1)service or product can be s

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT consistent with level scheduling?

Accepted Answer

A) varying the use of subcontracting 
B) finding alternative work for employees during low-demand periods 
C) using built-up inventory to meet demand requirements 
D) varying production levels and/or work force to meet demand requirements 
E) All of the above are inconsistent with the pure level strategy. 
A) varying the use of subcontracting 
B) finding alternative work for employees during low-demand periods 
C) using built-up inventory to meet demand requirements 
D) varying production levels and/or work force to meet demand requirements 
E) All of the above are inconsistent with the pure level strategy.

Exam 13: Aggregate Planning and Sop

What is the typical time horizon for aggregate planning?

What is the effort to plan the coordination of demand forecasts with functional areas of the firm and its supply chain?

One of the four things needed for aggregate planning is a logical overall unit for measuring sales and output.

Which of these is among the demand options of aggregate planning?

Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is known to lower employee morale?

What directly results from disaggregation of an aggregate plan?

What is disaggregation?

Finding an ideal mixed strategy is complicated by the huge number of possible strategies.

To use revenue management strategies,a business should have which combination of costs?

Describe the advantages and limitations of the transportation method for aggregate planning.

A hotel room that goes unrented,a dental appointment that no patient booked,and an airline seat that went unsold,are all examples of ________ in services.

Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is a capacity option?

The use of part-time workers as an aggregate planning option may be less costly than using full-time workers,but it may also reduce quality levels.

When developing an aggregate plan,one of the adjustable elements of capacity is the extent of subcontracting.

Osprey Fabrication has the following aggregate demand requirements and other data for the upcoming four quarters. Which of the following production plans is better: Plan A - chase demand by hiring and layoffs; Plan B- pure level strategy,or Plan C - 1350 level with the remainder by subcontracting?

________ is a capacity option that works especially well in the service sector where labor needs are relatively unskilled.

Which of the following would most likely fall under the scope of only an operations manager?

List,in order,the five steps of the graphical method of aggregate planning.Is it possible that these steps can be properly followed and the solution properly implemented without using a graph? Explain.

Identify the five conditions that make revenue management of interest.

Which of the following is NOT consistent with level scheduling?

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