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The synchronous manufacturing approach uses backward scheduling.

Which of the following is not one of the major functions of shop-floor control?

From an operational perspective, yield management is most effective under which of the following circumstances?

One of the assumptions made using CPM is that project activities can be identified with clear beginning and ending points.

The objective of strategic capacity planning is to provide an approach for determining the overall capacity level of labor-intensive resources.

Assume there are five jobs (i.e., A, B, C, D, and E) that need to be sequenced in a production schedule. The remaining operating time necessary for completion of job A is 3 days (i.e., job A will take 3 more days to complete), B will take 9 days, C will take 6 days, D will take 5 days and E will take 8 days. Which job should be scheduled last if using the SOT priority rule for job sequencing?

In finite loading, no consideration is given directly to whether there is sufficient capacity at the resources required to complete the work, nor is the actual sequence of the work as done by each resource in the work center considered.

Which of the following might be a status and exception report used in shop-floor control?

Using the cut-and-try method for aggregate operations planning, we can back calculate beginning inventory if we know the values of other relevant variables. What was the initial inventory if the production requirement was 900, the demand forecast was 1,000, and the necessary safety stock was 20 percent of the demand forecast?

We usually associate the word “seasonal” with recurrent periods of repetitive activity that happen on other than an annual cycle.