[Jun 21, 2022] Free APICS CPIM Exam Questions & Answer [Q334-Q353]

NEW QUESTION 334
A scheduled receipt is an order that has been issued:

To manufacturing

To supplier

Either to manufacturing or to supplier

It depends on situation

NEW QUESTION 335
In some industries, is the only strategy that can be followed. Farmers, for instance, must produce in the growing season. The post office must process mail over the Christmas rush and in slack seasons. Restaurants have to serve meals when the customers want them. These industries cannot stockpile or inventory their products or services and must be capable of meeting demands as it occurs.

Subcontracting

Resource Planning

Chase strategy

Production leveling strategy

NEW QUESTION 336
What are usually stated in units of product or some standard unit of output?

Priority plans

Capacity available

Capacity plans

None of the above

NEW QUESTION 337
The purpose/s of rough-out capacity planning is /are:

to check the feasibility of the MPS

provide warnings of any bottlenecks

Ensure utilization of work centers and advice vendors of capacity requirements

All of these

NEW QUESTION 338
_____________ of actual demands about the average refers to how closely the individual values cluster around the mean or average.

distribution

disbursement

dispersion

deviation

NEW QUESTION 339
Where-used reports give information about

The parents for a component

Independent and dependent demand

Both A & B

None of the above

NEW QUESTION 340
The following four jobs, A-D, have critical ratios of 1.6, 1.2, 0.3, and 0.4 respectively. When this rule is utilizing for dispatching, what is the sequence of job execution?

D, A, B, C

C, D, B, A

A, B, C, D

D, C, B, A

NEW QUESTION 341
Which of the following details are true about time buckets EXCEPT:

These are often a week

Can be any length of time convenient to the company

Companies can move to daily time buckets

Needs to avoid future problems

NEW QUESTION 342
Which statement is best as it relates to PROTECTIVE CAPACITY?

The capabilities of a system constraint

extra capacity used to protect against fluctuations in demand from the system constraint.

the capabilities of the gateway workcenter

capacity that should always be utilized

NEW QUESTION 343
Pareto analysis can be used:

to select problems with the greatest economic impact

to identify process bottleneck

To manage excessive overtime

To locate employee grievances with true assignable causes

NEW QUESTION 344
* Pareto charts
* Check sheets
* Process flowcharts
* Sactterplots
* Cause and effect diagram
These are the:

Quality control tools

Control charts

demand measurements

None of these

NEW QUESTION 345
If shippers want to reduce transportation cost, they should:

increase the weight shipped

maximize density

Both A and B

Neither A nor B

NEW QUESTION 346
The consolidation of several units into large units, called unit loads, so there is less handling, this is referred to as:

Exclusiveness

Itemization

Unitization

Solitary

NEW QUESTION 347
Today production control works in a demanding environment shaped by six major challenges. Which one of the following is not of those challenges?

Customer that are never satisfied

A supply chain that is large and must be manage

A product life cycle that is getting shorter and shorter

None of these

NEW QUESTION 348
What will be the impact on inventory turns if average inventory levels are cut in half and all other operating conditions remain the same?

Turns will double

Turns will remain constant

Turns will be cut in half

Turns will increase by the square root of 2

NEW QUESTION 349
If the product or service is ready for the customer’s use at the time of sale, this refers to:

Usability

Accomplishment

Implementation

Performance

NEW QUESTION 350
The tracking signal can be calculated as:

Tracking signal = cumulative sum of forecast errors + MAD

Tracking signal = algebraic sum of forecast orders / MAD

Tracking signal = cumulative sum of forecast errors * MAD

Tracking signal = algebraic sum of forecast errors / MAD where MAD = Mean Absolute Deviation

NEW QUESTION 351
Buyers in which environment need suppliers who value their new relationship, working in partnership to remove waste from the system?

After-sales service

Just-in-time capabilities

Manufacturing capabilities

Supplier technical ability

NEW QUESTION 352
is difference between the total planned for a given period and the
actual total for that period.

Increasing rate

Cumulative variance

Collective concern

Total control rate

NEW QUESTION 353
Benchmarking includes the following steps:

Select the process to benchmark

Identify an organization that is in best class