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Production Planning and Control: MRP AND ERP
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Production Planning and Control: MRP AND ERP
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1. The difference between a gross material requirements plan (gross MRP) and a net material requirements plan (net MRP) is
2. Which of these pieces of information is NOTcontained in a bill of material?
3. What is the more formal term for what is known as ‘Plan B’?
4. When a bill-of-materials is used in order to assign an artificial parent to a bill-of-materials, it is usually called a
5. Demand for a given item is said to be dependent if
6. What is measurementship?
7. What is at the heart of any ERP system?
8. Who are the primary users of ERP systems?
9. A report that shows the resource requirements in a work center for all currently assigned work as well as all planned and expected orders is a
10. An MRP system that provides feedback to the capacity plan, master production schedule, and production plans is called
11. Who are the primary users of SCM systems?
12. Which of the following is an advantage of ERP?
13. Three inputs for every MRP system are:
14. Which of the following lot-sizing techniques is likely to prove the most complex to use?
15. Which of the following describes an ERP system?
16. What represents a new approach to middleware by packaging together commonly used functionality, such as providing prebuilt links to popular enterprise applications, which reduces the time necessary to develop solutions that integrate applications from multiple vendors?
17. What must a system do to qualify as a true ERP solution?
18. Breaking up the order and running part of it ahead of schedule is known as
19. A time-phased stock-replenishment plan for all levels of a supply chain is called
20. Which of the following occurs when everyone involved in sourcing, producing, and delivering the company’s product works with the same information?
21. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been criticised on a number of grounds. Which of the following is not a common criticism of ERP?
22. What are the primary business benefits of an ERP system?
23. What are several different types of software, which sit in the middle of and provide connectivity between two or more software applications?
24. A lot-sizing technique that generates exactly what was required to meet the plan is
25. The operations manager has several tools available to deal with MRP system nervousness. Those tools are