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As per a study on materials management practices, a typical firm spends almost half of its rupee sales on goods purchased from vendors.

The make-or-buy decision is not taken only at starting of a factory but has to be reviewed continuously.

The assignment method is also called as :-

Physical Count method of collecting information from manufacturing shops is applicable in following situation :-

Generally for ______ flow system, Heuristic method is preferred.

Process plan is the process of establishing the ______ and most economical path that each part is to follow from raw material stage to finished product stage.

Because of uncertainty of activity timings, PERT acquired a shape of ______ model.

C type items would never be vital under VED analysis.

______ is a production line made up of operations that form or change the physical or sometimes chemical characteristics of a product.

Ordering of raw material is based on :-

________items should be excluded from ABC Analysis.

To minimize total throughout time we are required to minimize :-

Random fluctuation is addition of cyclical fluctuation and seasonal fluctuation.

When shop floor scheduling problem larger than 3 machines arise the analytical solution procedures leading to optimality are complex and difficult.

Keeping procurement cost and carrying cost constant, if annual usage of certain product becomes 4 times, the EOQ would be :-

Fluctuation due to changes in season are called cyclical fluctuation.

Buying for C quantities should be made in ______ quantities .

If number of work stations is 8 and work content of all stations is 32 , the cycle time would be ______.

To solve "n jobs - 3 machines" sequencing problem, the largest of time of any job on the second machine must be smaller than or equal to the smallest time of any job on first machine or third machine.

There are five manufacturing systems. However, many manufacturers combines two or more systems to produce a final product.

A company has 10 machines, working in two shifts. Utilization index is 0.75 and shop efficiency is 80%. Effective capacity hours for loading and scheduling are :-

Overlapping of operations helps in compressing manufacturing time.

The cost involved in subcontracting some of the operations of item outside the home plant is called :-

LOB technique was devised by US army in the year :-

The LOB technique is made more accurate and fast by using ______.

To keep facilities busy, waiting time due to non-availability of work should be kept at :-

Machine capacity chart

Sequencing helps management to determine the most economical job sequence the one that consumes minimum :-

In replenishment system, the type of ordering is either according to "stock level" or "pre-fixed time scale".

Increase in inventory carrying cost increases EOQ.

Job production requires ______ capital investment.

Labour efficiency factor is applied after capacity requirement of equipment is calculated.

The earliest start time of an activity equals to earliest event time of :-

Production Planning and Control makes the supervisor ineffective.

______ analysis mainly helps to identify non-existing items for which store keeps bin cards, wastes computer memory or wastes computer stationary while preparing stores ledger.

Work measurement is not useful for choosing between two alternate methods of production.

Transit time for manufactured items should be considered only when it is insignificant.

Let us suppose that activity M & N can not start until activity K & L are completed. Activities K &L are therefore :-

______ is the sum of set up time and run time.

Purchase department must keep PPC informed regarding lead time of different items specially where lead times are extended.

The assembly work content [ Wi ] of the i'th station having n work stations is given by :-

LOB is a manual planning and scheduling technique similar in nature to MRP [Material Resource Planning].

Lead time is ______ for different items.

Development of additional vendors/suppliers depends upon :-

Of all the work measurement techniques the most widely used techniques is________.

If more variety is to be manufactured, the manufacturing facilities would have to be :-

XYZ analysis helps to identify few items which account for large amount of money locked up in the stock and take steps for liquidation / reduction.

Short term forecasts are for ______.

Standard elemental time data

The LOB technique is most appropriate for assembly operations involving number of distinct components.

Order quantity

Flexibility and product variety are not inter-related with each other.

In CPM, use of dummy activities is much essential .

Line staff can assist PPC by manufacturing some of their needs in their own shops rather than making PPC to tool room or purchase.

In PERT, use of dummy activities is not much essential.

Labour efficiency depends upon ______

Long termed forecasts are for the period of :-

On completion of work the job card is returned to production planning and control department for reference and record.

A type items are always vital under VED analysis.

Find EOQ in Rs from the following data :-Annual consumption = 20, 000 units, Ordering and receiving cost of material = Rs 20 per order, Annual carrying cost or storage cost = 10% of unit cost of mater

Classification of items on basis of their capital lock up is called ______ analysis.

Mass & flow production and process production are categorized under :-

LOB has advantage that it is more ______ oriented than MRP.

The sourcing of vendors in case of 'B' type of items is :-

In alternate routing, the delayed job may be routed to a ______ machine where rate of production is faster.

If efficiency is more, the manufacturing time required for completion of job would be generally :-

Only satisfied customers get in ______ from new customers.

Orders with ______ slack time remaining per operation are run first.

Scheduling can be considered as a process of :-

Negative value of critical ratio :-

The make-or-buy decision becomes necessary when the current source of supply is not able to supply the material in accordance with buyer's quality requirements.

As the quantity increases, the procurement cost :-

The administrative lead time e.g. time involved in processing the order, which may be in periodical review system including the period until next review is called ______ lead time.

Work sampling is ______

Production Planning and Control department acts as a link between company's sales and ______ department.