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Production Planning and Control: Forecasting
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1. Short term regular variations related to the calendar or time of day is known as
2. The goal of aggregate planning is to
3. ________ is used to determine customer service levels.
4. Demand is forecast for the next five months as 200, 300, 500, 300, 200. The production planner decides to adopt a level strategy,so over the next five months they should produce
5. Which of the following is not a forecasting technique?
6. Capacity used to satisfy demand that is higher than forecasted is
7. Operations generated forecasts often not to do with
8. When formulating aggregate plans,
9. How frequently should the aggregate plan be rerun?
10. The planning horizon is
11. In which of the following forecasting technique, data obtained from past experience is analyzed?
12. The aggregate plan needs to
13. The strategy where workforce (capacity) is kept stable but the number of hours worked is varied over time in an effort tosynchronize production with demand is the
14. Aggregate planning is concerned with determining
15. The earliest IT supply chain products were
16. Demand is forecast for the next five months as 200, 300, 500, 300, 200. The production planner decides to adopt a chasestrategy, so over the next five months they should produce
17. The operational parameter concerned with the planned inventory carried over the various periods in the planning horizon is
18. If the actual demand for a period is 100 units but forecast demand was 90 units. The forecast error is
19. Advanced planning systems for aggregate planning rely heavily on ________ to deliver their full potential.
20. What is the name of the plan that breaks apart the aggregate plan into distinct product families?
21. The strategy where the production rate is synchronized with the demand rate by varying machine capacity or hiring and laying offemployees as the demand rate varies is the
22. Which of the following is not true for forecasting?
23. The operational parameter concerned with the number of units completed per unit time (such as per week or per month) is
24. The quality of the aggregate plan can be improved by using information from
25. A poor aggregate plan can result in

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