Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is known to lower employee morale?
a. yield management
b. counterseasonal product and service mixing
c. changing inventory levels
d. varying work force size by hiring or layoffs
e. back ordering during high demand periods
Answer: D
ISDC 3115
- Which of the following attempts to manipulate product or service demand?
- Which of the following is not associated with manipulation of product or service demand?
- Which of these aggregate planning strategies adjusts capacity to match demand?
- Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is a "capacity option"?
- Which of the following aggregate planning strategies might direct your client to a competitor?
- Which of these is among the demand options of aggregate planning?
- Dependence on an external source of supply is found in which of the following aggregate planning strategies?
- Disaggregation
- Which of the following statements about aggregate planning is false?
- Which of the following statements about aggregate planning is true?
- The planning tasks associated with staffing, production, inventory, and sub-contracting levels typically fall under
- Planning tasks associated with loading, sequencing, expediting, and dispatching typically fall under
- Which of the following is not one of the four things needed for aggregate planning?
- Aggregate planning is capacity planning for
- Which of the following is the term used for medium range capacity planning with a time horizon of three to eighteen months?
- The typical time horizon for aggregate planning is
- Which of the following statements regarding Anheuser-Busch is false?
- True/False: A hotel room that goes unrented and an airline seat that goes unsold are both examples of perishability of services inventory.
- True/False: Aggregate planning for fast food restaurants is very similar to aggregate planning in manufacturing, but with much smaller units of time.
- True/False: Controlling the cost of labor in services involves quick response to consumer demand, on-call labor for unexpected demand, flexibility of labor for reallocation, and flexibility of hours or rate of output of individual workers.
- True/False: The management coefficients model is a formal planning model built around a manager's experience and performance.
- True/False: The transportation method of linear programming is an optimizing approach to aggregate planning.
- True/False: Graphical techniques are easy to understand and use, but are not well-suited for generating optimal strategies.
- True/False: Finding an ideal mixed strategy is complicated by the huge number of possible strategies.