APICS CPIM-8.0 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 5

In a rapidly changing business environment, a primary advantage of an effective customer relationship management (CRM) program is:

How would a master production schedule (MPS) be used In an assemble-to-order (ATO) manufacturing environment?

It takes an average of 3 hours to set up a model and 1 hour to run, but depending on the complexity of the models, the setup time can be significantly different. Last week. 2 modelers were working on different projects. Each worked 40 hours. One modeler finished 5 models a day, and the other finished 1 model a day. What was the demonstrated capacity last week?

A plant uses a level production strategy due to the high costs of hiring and letting go of skilled employees. The constrained resource is due to be upgraded in the fourth month of the planning horizon, and that will reduce capacity for that month by 17%.

Which of the following actions would be appropriate in this situation to maintain current levels of customer service and gross margin?

An example of an assignable cause of variation in process performance is:

The horizon for forecasts that are input to the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process should be long enough that:

Given the information below, reducing which measure by 10% would contribute most to shortening the cash-to-cash cycle time?

The trade-off of increasing safety stock to improve customer fill rate would be a decrease in:

A firm that currently produces all items to stock is implementing the concept of postponement in all new product designs. Which of the following outcomes is most likely to result?