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Capacity can be defined as the ability to hold, receive, store, or accommodate.

Capacity planning that involves hiring, layoffs, some new tooling, minor equipment purchases, and subcontracting is considered as which one of the following planning horizons?

The term “enterprise resource planning (ERP)” can mean different things.

Select the correct present tense conjugation of the verb “ser” in the following sentence. Tú _______ la mejor maestra de inglés.

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?