CSCP Internal Operations and Inventory 3

Question 1

A planner wants to validate the master production schedule against key bottleneck resources before running MRP. Which technique is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Rough-cut capacity planning

Answer

Rough-cut capacity planning checks the MPS against critical resources before detailed MRP is run.

Question 2

Capacity requirements planning (CRP) differs from rough-cut capacity planning mainly because CRP uses which input?

Accepted Answer

MRP planned orders and open shop orders with routings

Answer

CRP calculates detailed work-center load from MRP planned orders, open orders, and routings.

Question 3

In drum-buffer-rope scheduling under the theory of constraints, what does the 'drum' represent?

Accepted Answer

The pace set by the constraint resource

Answer

The drum is the constraint's schedule, which sets the pace for the whole system.

Question 4

A customer service rep needs to know how many units of an item can be committed to new orders in a given period. Which MPS output answers this?

Accepted Answer

Available-to-promise

Answer

Available-to-promise is the uncommitted portion of inventory and planned production available for new customer orders.

Question 5

Inside the demand time fence, the MPS projected available balance is typically calculated using which demand?

Accepted Answer

Customer orders only

Answer

Inside the demand time fence, forecast is usually ignored and only actual customer orders drive the calculation.

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