What are the primary business benefits of an ERP system?
A. Sales forecasts, sales strategies and marketing campaigns
B. Market demand, resource and capacity constraints, and real time scheduling
C. Forecasting, planning, purchasing, material management, warehousing, inventory and distribution
D. All of the above
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Which of the following is/are factor(s) of product design stage?
A. Product characteristics
B. Economic analysis
C. Profit and competitiveness
D. All of the above
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Objectives of scheduling include
A. keeping operator idle time to minimum
B. keeping machine idel time at minimum
C. keeping machine ancillary time at minimum
D. all of the above
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Which category of benchmarking, involves specific competitor comparisons for a product, service or function of interest?
A. Internal
B. Functional
C. Generic
D. Competitve
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Facility location decisions
A. do not affect other capacity decisions
B. are intermediate range capacity decisions
C. are not affected by other existing capacities
D. none of the above
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What does Kaizen mean, when translated from Japanese into English?
A. Change good
B. Change slow
C. Process change
D. Process slow
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Which of the following is a reason for ERPs explosive growth?
A. ERP is a logical solution to the mess of incompatible applications
B. ERP addresses the need for global information sharing and reporting
C. ERP is used to avoid the pain and expense of fixing legacy systems
D. All of the above
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Match the following.
List-I (Element of Production)
List-II (Elements)
a. Control of due dates
1. Cribes
b. Control of material
2. SQC
c. Control of quality
3. EOQ
d. Control of tooling
4. Scheduling
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
C. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
D. a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
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Which of the following reflect the key focus of six sigma?
A. Reduction in the cycle time
B. Analysing and minimising the standard deviation in output
C. Improving the quality of product
D. Defining the layout of production facilty
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In solving a facility location problem in which there are two possible locations being considered, the transportation algorithm may be used. In doing this
A. two rows (sources) would be added to the existing rows and the enlarged problem would be solved
B. costs of zero would be used for each of the new facility
C. two separate transportation problems will be solved
D. the MODI method must be used to evaluate the empty cells
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Process layout offers the advantages of
A. adaptability to changes
B. better job satisfaction for the workers
C. higher flow times
D. both A and B
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The method used for solving an assignment problemis called
A. reduced matrix method
B. MODI method
C. hungarian method
D. none of these
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Which instrument is used in quality control?
A. Control chart
B. Acceptance sampling
C. SQC
D. All of the above
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In which one of the following situations, a product oriented layout is appropriate?
A. A medical clinic
B. An automated carwash
C. A work centre for welding, heat treating and painting
D. Ahome plumbing repair business
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Drum, buffer, rope conceptis assosciated with?
A. Scheduling
B. Loading
C. Sequencing
D. Monitoring
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The initial solution of a transportation problem can be obtained by applying any known method. However, the only condition is that
A. the solution be optimal
B. the rim conditions are satisfied
C. the solution not be degenerate
D. all of the above
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In order to achieve quality, organisations must consider
A. product policy
B. product design and manufacturing
C. final use of the product
D. all of the above
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The another term used commonly for activity slack time is
A. total float
B. independent float
C. free float
D. all of these
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Which of the following is not an external dirver for benchmarking?
A. Customers continually demand better quality, lower pirces, shorter lead times
B. Competitors are constantily trying to get ahead and steal markets
C. Legislation
D. None of the above
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Important point to be kept in mind while evaluating ERP software is the total cost that includes
1. Cost of license
2. Cost of training
3. Implementation and maintenance cost
4. Customisation and hardware requirements costs
Select the correct answer:
A. 1, 2 and 3
B. 2, 3 and 4
C. 1, 2 and 4
D. All of the above
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