CPIM1 Section B

How does advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software differ from other planning systems?

APS simultaneously plans and schedules production based on available materials, labor, and plant capacity.

In a make-to-stock strategy, when are orders for products typically received?

After the product is in inventory and available for sale

Assume that design, purchase, inventory, manufacturing, assembly, and ship steps each individually have a lead time of one week. In which environment would delivery lead time be two weeks?

Assemble-to-order

Which of the following is the most likely manufacturing environment for a bicycle?

Assemble-to-order

Which of the following refers to a production environment where a product can be assembled from common components after receipt of a customer's order?

Assemble-to-order

In an assemble-to-order strategy, when are orders for products received?

Before the product can be assembled and made available for sale

In a make-to-order strategy, when are orders for products typically received?

Before the product is produced, placed in inventory, and made available for sale

Delivery lead time in an engineer-to-order environment includes which of the following elements?

Design, purchase, manufacture, assemble, ship

How does enterprise resources planning (ERP) differ from manufacturing resource planning?

ERP does not dwell on manufacturing alone.

How does an engineer-to-order product differ from products in other production strategies?

Each customer order results in a unique set of part numbers, bills of material, and routings.

Which of the following statements refers to project production?

Each unit or small group of units is managed by a project team created especially for that purpose.

Which of the following is a type of manufacturing environment used for large, often unique items or structures that require a custom design capability?

Engineer-to-order

Which of the following is the most likely manufacturing environment for a custom single-family home?

Engineer-to-order

Which of the following manufacturing strategies is most appropriate when the customer is heavily involved in the product design?

Engineer-to-order

As manufacturing planning and control has become more complex, the need for integration of knowledge and decision making has resulted in which of the following computer systems?

Enterprise resources planning

Which of the following is a framework for organizing, defining, and standardizing the business processes necessary to effectively plan and control an organization?

Enterprise resources planning

A company has developed a new, innovative product that is taking over the market. Early sales consume everything the company can produce, but things have started to slow down. Both production and sales continue to grow. What are the typical challenges that would be expected in this growth phase of the product's life?

In the growth phase of a product, rapid expansion and increased production often lead to degradation in quality and delivery.

Which of the following terms refers to a form of manufacturing in which the jobs pass through the functional departments in lots and each lot may have a different routing?

Intermitten

Which of the following statements is true of enterprise resources planning (ERP)?

Large data requirements tend to make these systems expensive and difficult to operate.

A chemical company waits to manufacture batches of products until customers place orders, due to the products' shelf life. This is an example of which of the following production environment strategies?

Make-to-order

Which manufacturing environment has the longest delivery lead time?

Make-to-order

Which of the following is the most likely manufacturing environment for an industrial hydraulic press?

Make-to-order

Master schedulers require the details of a customer order for which of the following production strategies?

Make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and engineer-to order

Which of the following is the most likely manufacturing environment for a disposable food storage container?

Make-to-stock

What is the definition of data governance?

Overall management of the accessibility, usability, reliability, and security of data used to ensure data record accuracy

An organization is pursuing a product differentiation strategy. Which is a production environment that could accommodate this strategy while also minimizing related inventories of components and/or finished goods?

Postponement

Which product design strategy shifts product differentiation closer to the consumer by delaying identity changes, such as assembly or packaging, to the last possible supply chain location?

Postponement

Which are primary activities in manufacturing planning and control?

Production planning and inventory management.

What is the term for a production environment in which each unit or small group of units is managed by a team created especially for that purpose?

Project

What is a primary benefit to a company of using electronic data interchange for repeat orders with its suppliers?

Purchase orders can be released without buyer action.

Which is an advantage of work cells?

Reduced material movement

A vehicle assembly plant would be classified as which type of manufacturing process?

Repetitive

Using the VATI analysis terminology, what type of plant would typically be used in an assemble-to-order manufacturing environment?

T-plants

Implementation of electronic data interchange (EDI) will have the most impact on which of the following costs?

Transactions

Which of the following is a characteristic of flow manufacturing?

Work centers are dedicated to producing similar products.

A mass production shop with a continuous layout where products follow the same process is also known as:

a flow shop.

A benefit of implementing electronic data interchange (EDI) with a supplier is a reduction in:

data errors.

In a functional layout,

each work center must be flexible.

When customer orders are received in a make-to-stock environment, they consume:

finished goods.

In a product-based layout,

there is little build-up of work-in-process (WIP) inventory.

Manufacturing lead time represents the:

total time required to manufacture an item, exclusive of lower-level purchasing lead time.