Deck 8: Capacity, Scheduling, and Location Planning

Question 1

Yield or revenue management would NOT be so appropriate if which of the following circumstances is present?

A)Uncertain demand
B)Perishable capacity
C)The market is homogeneous
D)Capacity is sold in advance

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The four major considerations in selecting a national or overseas region for the facility are:

A)Labor supply,availability of inputs,foreign management,and environment
B)Proximity,labor supply,availability of inputs,and environment
C)Proximity,environment,facility size,and foreign management styles
D)Proximity,environment,facility size,and labor supply

Answer 2

B

Question 3

__________ means deciding which jobs to assign to which work centers.

A)Loading
B)Sequencing
C)MRP
D)Facility planning

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is/are (a)technique(s)used for increasing short-run capacity

A)Increase resources
B)Improve resource use
C)Modify the demand
D)All of the above

Question 5

When a resource is scheduled as if it had unlimited capacity to handle any and all jobs,its schedule is called

A)Bottleneck
B)Infinite loading
C)Finite loading
D)Cycle time

Question 6

In order to leverage the location decision to enhance the development of long-term capabilities,the first step is to:

A)Identify the sources of value the company will deliver
B)Assess implications for the location of organizational units
C)Identify the key organizational capabilities
D)Evaluate the key decision makers

Question 7

Yield management,also known as revenue management is the amount of output of acceptable quality emerging from a production system compared with the amount that entered it.

Question 8

It is not unusual for fire departments to use "slack months" for building inspections,conducting prevention programs and giving talks as a way to have anticyclic outputs.

Question 9

Utilization can be defined as:

A)Output divided input
B)Actual output relative to some expected,designed,or normal output
C)Input divided by output
D)Output in proportion to the actual input

Question 10

Learning curve effect is

A)The ability to increase a machine's productive capacity through usage
B)The ability to improve a process capacity through the usage of a machine
C)The human ability to adjust their productive capacity through learning
D)The human ability to increase their productive capacity through learning

Question 11

The first step to enhance the development of long-term capabilities is to identify potential locations.

Question 12

Obtaining lower unit costs through the use of larger facilities is called economies of scope.

Question 13

Assume that Company F produces a variety of smart phones sequentially on three machines.The times required on each machine for one typical racket are as follows: M1: 3 minutes M2: 8 minutes,M3: 2 minutes,M4: 5 minutes.The throughput time for a smart phone is :

A)2 minutes
B)4)5 minutes
C)9 minutes
D)18 minutes

Question 14

The __________ plan is a preliminary,approximate schedule of an organization's overall operations that will satisfy the demand forecast at minimum cost.

A)Production
B)Rough-cut capacity
C)Aggregate
D)Efficiency

Question 15

Which of the following are measures of capacity in terms of outputs and inputs produced for the corresponding production system?

A)Airline - customers checked out per hour - reservation calls handled per day
B)Supermarket - available seat miles per year - cartons unloaded per hour
C)University - graduates per year - students admitted per year
D)Automobile assembly plant - autos assembled per year -packages delivered per day

Question 16

The most important factor(s)effecting the learning curve rate include(s):

A)Complexity of the task
B)Percentage of mechanical input
C)Percentage of human input
D)Only A and C

Question 17

The weighted score model is helpful for site selection decisions at the following stage:

A)Community
B)Site
C)Regional - International
D)None of the above

Question 18

In planning the long-term capacity of an operation,one should take into account:

A)Bottlenecks
B)Economies of scale
C)Economies of scope
D)Only B and C

Question 19

In locating pure services,which of the following measures are recommended in the literature on health clinics and can be used for trial-and-error procedures?

A)Facility utilization
B)Travel distance per citizen
C)Travel distance per doctor
D)Only A and B

Question 20

Revenue or Yield Management may also be thought of as:

A)The process of trying to manage the entire production based on the expected revenue
B)The attempt to allocate the fixed capacity of the service to match the highest revenue demand in the marketplace
C)The notion that revenue can be generated though managing only a certain set of operations
D)Trying to get a fixed source of revenue for the organization

Question 21

In addition to showing time schedules,Gantt charts can also be used for capacities of facilities,workers,jobs,activities,and so forth.

Question 22

In the allocation of capacity,overbooking is an attempt to reduce costs through better schedule management.

Question 23

Organizations such as makers of greeting cards,of summer or winter products and of fireworks face a cyclic difficulty referred to as _________.

Question 24

The physical release of a work order from the production planning and control department to operations is called ___________.

Question 25

The more __________ the service,the longer it is worth waiting for.

Question 26

The cycle time of the process is the reciprocal of the output rate.

Question 27

Rough-cut capacity planning projects job orders and demands for materials into requirements for equipment,work force,and facility to find total capacity of each over the planning horizon.

Question 28

The learning curve is the ability programmed in robots to increase their productive capacity through learning.

Question 29

Efficiency is defined as input divided by output.

Question 30

Uncertain waiting is longer than known,finite waiting.

Question 31

Bottlenecks are places in the production process where production slows down because of a slow or insufficient number of resources.

Question 32

After a region of a new facility has been selected,candidate communities within the region are identified for further analysis.