Which one of the following scenarios represents the use of a kanban to reduce inventories?
a. A supervisor tells the operators to stay busy and start producing parts for next month.
b. A "supplier" work center signals the downstream workstation that a batch has been completed.
c. A supervisor signals to several work centers that the production rate should be changed.
d. A "customer" work center signals to the "supplier" workstation that more parts are needed.
e. An operator asks the next station's operator to help him fix his machine.
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 the following aggregate planning strategies is known to lower employee morale?
- 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.