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Rather than try to adjust the master production schedule to change resource loads, it is more practical to control the flow at each bottleneck or CCR to bring capacities in line.

A strength of ERP systems is that it is not necessary to have consistent definitions across all functional areas.

One of the weaknesses of SAP is the inability to link with most mobile devices.

Capacity planning involving acquisition or disposal of fixed assets such as buildings, equipment or facilities is considered as which one of the following planning horizons?

Which of the following is an approach to dealing with a bottleneck?

An MRP system can allow for product rejects by building a larger batch than is demanded, but a JIT system cannot tolerate poor quality.

A simple project listing of five activities, their predecessors, and their respective time estimates are presented here: Using the CPM, which activities have slack in this project?

A company wants to generate a forecast for unit demand for year 2017using exponential smoothing. The actual demand in year 2016was 120. The forecast demand in year 2016was 110. Using these data and a smoothing constant alpha of 0.1, which of the following is the resulting year 2017forecast value?

Precise capacity design or therate of service utilization (ρ), is application specific.

If a firm produced a product that was experiencing growth in demand, the smoothing constant alpha (reaction rate to differences) used in an exponential smoothing forecasting model would tend to be which of the following?