CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Answers

It should be recognized that order winners and qualifiers for any product market combination are not static. not only will customers change perspectives as competitors jokey for position but the order winners and qualifiers will often change based on the concepts of:

A. Product life cycle

B. Economic changes

C. Government regulation

D. Market needs

Which of the following help to achieve marketing objectives?

A. Maintain high inventories to goods are always available for the customers

B. Interrupt production runs so that a non-inventoried item can be manufactured quickly

C. Create an extensive and costly distribution system so good can be shipped to the customer rapidly

D. All of these

Engineering drawings and specifications and bill of material are the methods of:

A. Product Description

B. Process specifications

C. Quantities required

D. None of these

and uncouples the sales forecast from manufacturing by establishing a manufacturing plan

A. Production plan, MPS

B. MRP and production plan

C. MPS and chase strategy

D. MRP and MRP II

In terms of structure and function, the construction supply chain is characterized by the following element/s:

A. It is a converging supply chain directing all materials to the construction site where the object is assembled from incoming materials. The ?construction factory ?is set up around the single product, in contrast to manufacturing systems where multiple products pass through the factory, and are distributed to many customers.

B. It is, apart from rare exceptions, a temporary supply chain producing one-of construction projects through repeated reconfiguration of project organizations. As a result, the construction supply chain is typified by instability, fragmentation, and especially by the separation between the design and the construction of the built object.

C. It is a typical make-to-order supply chain, with every project creating a new product or prototype.There is little repetition, again with minor exceptions. The process can be very similar, however, for projects of a particular kind.

D. All of these

is the number of periods 1, in which changes are not expected due to excessive cost caused by schedule disruption.

A. Projected available balance

B. Demand time fence

C. Scheduled receipt

D. ATP (available o promise)

A work center consists of 4 machines each working a 16-hour day for 5 days a week. What is the weekly available time?

A. 230 hours per week

B. 300 hours per week

C. 350 hours per week

D. 320 hours per week

By using following product tree, how many Ks are needed to make 200Xs and 150 Ys?

A. 1900 Ks

B. 900 Ks

C. 2100 Ks

D. 800 Ks

What represents the master schedule for the operation, which is focused around the pace of throughput as defined by the constraint?

A. Drum

B. Buffer

C. Rope

D. None of the above

Which of the following is NOT the possible root cause in generating some ideas about the main causes of the problem?

A. Processes

B. Materials

C. Machines

D. Environment