BSCM- Exam 1

Question 1

ABC Classification

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Answer 2

In Transportation the facility with which a carrier provides services from one point to another. In warehouseing, the ability to get to and within the point of storage easily.

Question 3

Actual Cost

Answer 3

All costs(labor, materials and overhead) that are associated with a job or order as it is processed through the company. Alternatively, costs could be accumulated using standard/estimated hours.

Question 4

Advance ship notice

Answer 4

An electronic data interchange (EDI) notification of shipment of product.

Question 5

Aesthetics

Answer 5

A dimention of product quality that intends to appeal to the senses

Question 6

Aggregate forecast

Answer 6

An Estimate of sales, often time phased, for a grouping of products or product families produced by a facility or firm. stated in terms of units , dollars, or both. used for sales and production planning

Question 7

Andon

Answer 7

An electronic board that provides visibility of floor status and supplies information to help coordinate the efforts to linked work centers. Signal lights are green (running) red (stop) and yellow (needs attention)

Question 8

Anticipated Inventories

Answer 8

Inventory build up for a seasonal demand or a planned shutdown of a manufacturing plant, it can include finished goods, work-in-process, and raw materials.

Question 9

Assemble-to-Order(ATO)

Answer 9

Subassemblies that are produced to a forecast but not completed until a customer order is received.

Description

• Fewer products than build-to-order, but volumes are higher
• Build to forecasted options
• Assemble option to customer specification.
• Use of planning bills
• Medium profit margin per item

Impact on Inventory

• Little, if any, finsished goods.
• Inventory based on option forecast.
• Raw material held, especially for long lead-time items

Question 10

Assembly Line

Answer 10

An Assembly process in which equipment and work centers are laid out to follow the sequence in which raw materials and parts are assembled.

Question 11

Asset

Answer 11

Assets are items that the company owns. Assets are divided into short-term(consumed in less than a year) ie. Cash, A/R & inventory.
Longterm assets ie. machines & Equipment

Question 12

Assignable cause

Answer 12

A source of variation in a process that can be isolated, especially when its significantly larger magniture or different origin readily distinguishes it from random causes of variation Syn: special cause.

Question 13

Automated storage/retrieval system(AS/RS)

Answer 13

High density, rack inventory storage system with vehicles automatically loading and unloading the racks.

Question 14

Available Inventory

Answer 14

Is trhe remaining inventory quanity when allocations, reservations, back orders and rejected quantities are subtracted from the current on-hand balance.

Question 15

Available-to-Promise (ATP)

Answer 15

Begining on-hand inventory minus customer orders that are due or past due. It is synonymous with uncommitted inventory.

Question 16

Average Cost Per Unit

Answer 16

Method of determininga unit cost by using the actual formula below:

(Estimated Direct Cost + Estimated Indirect Cost)/ Total Units Made

Question 17

Average Inventory

Answer 17

One half the average lot size plus the safety stock, when demand and lot sizes are expected to be relatively uniform over time. The average can be calculated as an average of several inventory observations taken over several historical time periods.

Question 18

Backflush

Answer 18

Technique that explodes back through the Bill of material to account for the material, labor and overhead for an end item. Adjustments for actions such as scrap, rework, and extra usage must be entered into the system to reconcile the book records and the accounting records.

Question 19

Backhauling

Answer 19

The process of a transportation vehicle returning from the original destination point to the point of orgin.

Question 20

Backlog

Answer 20

Unshiped sales orders, customer orders, or other committed demand which may or may not be past due. Backlog can be expressed in dollars, orders, or units.

Question 21

Backorder

Answer 21

Unshipped sales orders, customer orders, or other committed demand which is either an immediate demand or past due, because there is not enough inventory to fill the orders. Costs of backorders can be hard(expedite fees, express freight charges, overtime premium and so on) or soft (loss of customers or sales, loss of goodwill, and so on)

Question 22

Backward Scheduling

Answer 22

This method is used to determine start dates and due dates of orders by begining with the required completion date of the order, then subracting lead-times for each operation. The start date of one operation becomes the due date of the previous, with the process continuing until all operations are scheduled.

Question 23

Balance Sheet

Answer 23

A Financial Report for a company that indicates the net worth as of a specific date by identifying all assets and subtracting all liabilities.

• Note that two sides of the balance sheet are equal

Question 24

Batch

Answer 24

A Predetermined number of units to be made or produced. each batch is assigned a unique identification number for traceability.

Question 25

Batch Processing

Answer 25

An environment in which manufacturing waits for a specified quantity of parts before begining an operation in order to justify set-up and run times. The same technique can apply to computer transactions, where they are performed only at specified times each day rather than in real time.

Question 26

Bias

Answer 26

A regular and consisten variation from the average or mean, always in one direction(consistently high or consistenly low). Since a bias is a pattern of forecast error, a forecasting model should have very little bias.

Question 27

Bill of material (BOM)

Answer 27

A BOM contains a list of parts and quantiies required to build an end item. The establishment of the relationship between the end item and its parts, called “structuring the BOM”, is done systematically through a process of establishing the parent-component relationship.

• A manufacturing order(work order)would be required to build part B
• A purchase order would be needed to acquire parts 3 and 4, whenever there are components to the part, a purchase order is required.

Question 28

Blanket Order

Answer 28

Synonym: Blanket PO

A Purchase Order(PO) for a long-term commitment, usually one year, for a small number of parts. Price is set, most likely pre determined scheduled deliveries. Blanket PO’s allow for a supplier to have greater visibility to the long-term requriements and the customer is able to lock in a price and reduce the administration costs with fewer PO’s.

Question 29

Bottleneck

Answer 29

When demand is greater than the capacity of machines and/or a person to produce requried output, a bottleneck is said to exist. A bottleneck could exist in any process that is not capable of meeting the output/demand. indication of an area rquiring corrective action such as an increase in capacity if the demand is going to be satisfied ona timely basis.

Question 30

Buffer

Answer 30

A quantity of incomplete parts that is held behind an operation or work center as a cushion, in order to reduce the possibility of any downtime due to lack of parts.

Question 31

Business Plan

Answer 31

statement of long-range strategy, supported by projection of resources. Describes what the business looks like today and predicts what it will look like in the future, creates a framework for the company.

Question 32

Capacity

Answer 32

Picture a manufacturing facility as a funnel

Capacity is the rate at which the work is withdrawn from the bottom of the funnel The width of the bottom opening is the rated capacity. The work in the funnel is the load. Capacity equals output and capacity controls allow for the monitoring of the actual output to the planned output of a machine and/or person.

Question 33

Capacity Available

Answer 33

This is capacity that has not been consumed by customer orders. It is the capacity available to promise to customers in the form of products.

Question 34

Capacity Management

Answer 34

There are two parts to capacity management

1. The planning of the capacity required to meet projected demands
2. The controlling of the capacity to monitor, adjust to and achieve the plan

Capacity management includes long-term, medium-term, and short-term capacity.

Question 35

Capacity Management Framework

Answer 35

Long-Term Capacity Management
Production Plan –> Resource plan

Medium-Term Capacity Management
Master Schedule–> Rough cut capacity

Short to Medium Capacity Management
MRP –> CRP

Question 36

Capacity Requried

Answer 36

The amount of output requried to meet the demand for specific perods of time, days, weeks, quarters, or years.

Question 37

Capacity Requirements Planning(CRP)

Answer 37

The Process of reviewing, calculating, and making adjustments to the capacity limits in a much greater level of detail than rough-cut capacity. CRP uses the open and planned manufacturing orders and calculates the rquired time for each work center by time period through the parts routings and the applicable standar hours.

Question 38

Carring Cost

Answer 38

All costs involved with holding inventory prior to use. The cost is usually defined as a percentage of the dollar value of inventory per unit of time (generally one year) Carrying costs includes: obsolescence, deterioration, taxes, insurance, storage and capital.

Question 39

cash flow

Answer 39

A financial term that refers to the net flow of money in and out of a project or firm: cash receipts, cash expenses, adn investments.

Question 40

Cellular Manufacturing

Answer 40

A production process performed by a dedicated team of people and equipment responsible for a specific high-value assembly or part. The equipment is organized in a cellular layout allowing the team to operate almost independently of other areas of the factory. All equipment and human resources required for teh assembly is located in the cell

Question 41

Changeover

Answer 41

Synonum: Setup Time

The time required to prepare machine to produce parts, subassemblies and so on. This includes the total time between the last good unit of the previous part number is produced, until the completion of the first good part of the new part number. Setup time is included in the overall manufacturing lead-time and might include run and inspection time for the new part

Question 42

Chase Method

Answer 42

The objective of this planning method is to maintain a level inventory while varying manufacturing rates to meed demand. Companies might combine chase and level production schedule methods over their planning horizon.

Question 43

Closed-Loop (MRP)

Answer 43

A material requirements planning(MRP) system that contains feedback loops from all functions within the business, such as sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, and capacity requirements planning. the feedback ensures that the system is always current, anddata used for making important decisions is available.

Question 44

Competitive Analysis

Answer 44

An analysis performed on a competitor’s strategies, capabilities prices, and costs in order to determine the company’s best approach to compete. required in order to complete a (SWOT) analysis

Question 45

Component

Answer 45

The “Child” in the parent/child relationship as defined by the Bill of Material, an ingredient to the next higher assembly. A component might be a raw material, a sub assembly or even an assembly.

Question 46

Consighnment

Answer 46

To reduce this risk to a customer, a supplier will often deliver their goods to a customer, with the agreement that payment is not required until after the items are sold. Consignment increases the likelihood of a customer taking a chance with new products or a new supplier. The term also applies to a shipment or delivery that is processed by a common carrier.

Question 47

Contraint

Answer 47

A limitation (physical, policy, or procedure) that inhibits a process or somehow restricts it.

Question 48

Continuous Production

Answer 48

A manufacturing process that is batchless, where the product flows successively without breaks. This type of manufacturing is possible only in a high-volume environment with very low product variety.

Question 49

Control Chart

Answer 49

Synonym: Process Control Chart 
A SPC (statistical process control) tool that is sued to measure the variability of a process and to determine how much of the variability is random vs variance by distinct, single events or actions.  Similar to a run chart, but also includes the average the upper control limit (UCL) and sometimes a lower control limit (LCL)

Question 50

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)

Answer 50

Costs that include direct materials, direct labor and factory overhead. These cost associatedwith the cost of producing the product are reflected in the company’s income statement Formula:

Begining Inventory + Inventory purchases - End inventory=COGS

Question 51

Cost of Quality

Answer 51

All costs involved with monitoring the quality of the entire system. recognition and incorporation of preventative activities and the implementation of corrective actions when quality checks identify problems. Quality Cost are grouped in 4 categories:

1. Internal failures(product has not reached the customer)
2. External failures(product has reached the customer) includes warranty andreturn costs
3. Appraisal costs, include all costs involved with monitoring the quality of the system in house ie. supplier audits, test equipment
4. Prevention costs, costs of improvement activities, ie. ISO training and supplier certification programs

Question 52

Cumulative Lead-Time

Answer 52

The longest past through the Bill of material product structure. Cumulative lead-time includes not only manufacturing lead-time but the purchasing as well as design lead-time. The planning hrizon for the master schedule should be at least as long as the comullative lead-time.

Question 53

Customer Service

Answer 53

Meeting or exceeding customer’s expectations. includes delivery performance, pricing, flexibility, quality and warranty.

Question 54

customer service ratio

Answer 54

A performance measure that is shown as a percentage of on-time vs promised deliver dates. stated both in dollars and units.

Question 55

cycle

Answer 55

the time that it takes for a process to return to its original state or conditions, for example: seasonal demand. cycle also refersto the amount of time to complete a process or event.

Question 56

Cycle Counting

Answer 56

A method of verifying the inventory record accuracy by randomly counting a portion of the stockroom each day, based on the ABC classifications. Higher dollar items (A’s) are counted more often than B-items which are counted more frequently than the lowest dollar items (C-parts) value in cycle counting is the ability to identify the root cause of record error and immediately implement corrective actions.

Question 57

Cycle Stock

Answer 57

Inventory can be considered to have two components:

1. Safety stock, which remains as a cushion, relatively unchanged
2. Cycle stock, which gets consumed routinely and replenished for future demand.

Question 58

Cycle Time

Answer 58

two types of cycle time

1. Engineering cycle time- the amount of time between the completion of two parts or between sets of parts
2. Material cycle time- the time measured from when the material first arrives at a facility until it is shipped out as a finished good for that facility.

Question 59

Decoupling

Answer 59

Making teh supply or pervious operation independent from its consumption or the subsequent operaton, usually accomplished with an inventory buffer.

Question 60

Demand

Answer 60

the requirement for a specific item, expressed as an independent or dependent source. Independent demand is the result of customer orders sales orders, or forecast. Dependent demand is calculated through MRP as its explodes through the Bill of materials.

Question 61

Demand Management

Answer 61

the administration and entry of customer orders into the Master Schedule. This also includes working with the customers and or sales in a feedback loop to mutually agree on new dates when problems arise such as shortages, resource limitations, engineering changes and so on. The feedback loop is what makes demand management different from order entry.

Question 62

Demand Pull

Answer 62

The JIT production environment is often described as a demand pull vs the demand push system as is used in the more traditional production environment. The demand push system puts more inventory on the shop floor than can be used in the manufacturing process in twenty four hours. A demand pull system is essentially a visual feedback control system, both within and between work centers ending with final assembly of the end item to satisy the customer’s demands.

Question 63

Demontrated Capacity

Answer 63

Based on historical results, it shows how much capacity was actually used in production. It shows over or under utilization of capacity as compared to rated capacity.

Question 64

Dependent Demand

Answer 64

Dependent demand is the demand for all the components required to satisfy the dependent or independent demand from a higher level and is determined using the BOM structure for the parent or next higher assembly. These demands are calculated, not forecasted. In contrast, independent demand is forecasted

Question 65

Direct Labor

Answer 65

Labor cost and time involved in actually building or putting all the parts together to create the saleable product.

Question 66

Direct Material

Answer 66

The material associated with the actual product vs indirect material, which might include gases, and so on. Usually, direct material is on the Bill of Material for the product.

Question 67

Discrete Manufacturing

Answer 67

Thie production of specific items or units. Some examples of discrete manufacturing are computers, tires and medical devices. Process manufacturing, like gasoline and motor oil is not discrete manufacturing.

Question 68

Dispatching

Answer 68

A prioritization method of listening which manufactruing orders on the shop floor are to be worked on and in what order.

Question 69

Distribution Inventory

Answer 69

One of five basic categories of inventory, inventory is held a points (branch warehouses, distribution centers, or field warehouses) as close to the customer as possible.

Question 70

Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP)

Answer 70

Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP) involves meeting customer requirements and receiving and storing goods at the lowest cost possible. In most cases, distribution encompasses the process of customer order entry through delivery of the product to the customer.

Question 71

Distributor

Answer 71

A business that purchases and resells manufactured goods

Question 72

Due Dates

Answer 72

The targed or required receipt date to either a purchased or work order make item

Question 73

Economic Order Quantity(EOQ)

Answer 73

The Economic Order Quantity(EOQ) is a demand-based or static formula. This calculation establishes the amount to be purchased or manufactured by determining the minimal cost of purchasing or building with the cost to carry the inventory.
The formula might be used to determine the minimum units to be purchased or built or the minimum cost in dollars

Question 74

Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Formula

Answer 74

Units: EOQ
U= Anual Usage in Units
S= Setup or qordering Costs
I= Inventory Carrying Cost
C= Unit Cost
Dollars: EOQ
A= Annual Usage in Dollars
S=Setup or Ordering Cost 
I= Inventory Carrying Cost

Question 75

Efficiency

Answer 75

A measurement of the performance of a machine work center, operation or department which is the ratio of the actual output to the expected (or standard) output. The Formula for calculating efficiency depends on how work is measured for the project beign analyzed- units produced hours worked or dollars produced

Question 76

Efficiency Formula

Answer 76

1. Measured in units produced: For example: the standard for a mill is 48 parts per shift, the machinist produced 42
   (42/48) x100% =87.5% efficency

Question 77

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Answer 77

EDI eliminates paperwork by sending and receiving data and documents electronically, either through a direct connection between the two departments or companies or by updating a database on the internet. The electronic exchange can be used for all types of documents although typically it is used for purchase order information current supply/demand data receipts and invoices.

Question 78

Employee Empowerment?

Answer 78

Employee empowerment is more than involving employees in decision making activities pertaining to their job or increased access to company financials. . Managers empower teams by providing them with the desired outcome and the data needed for them to make the best choice of action.

Question 79

Employee Involvement (EI)

Answer 79

All activities that improve an employee’s ability to make better decisions pertaining to their job. Training and education are both examples

Question 80

Engineer-to order?

Answer 80

A manufacturing strategy that is required when products are unique or one of a kind and a completed customer specification is needed before work can start. This strategy results in no finished goods and minimal raw materials. However the lead time is normally very long.

Question 81

Expedite

Answer 81

All actions taken to get an item produced in less than the normal lead time. SOme typical examples are overtime, additional shifts additional manning weekend work air freight and partial shipments. All of these expedite choices add to overall costs.

Question 82

Explode

Answer 82

Based on the establishment of parent-component relationship it allows for the creationof a gross requirement from the generations of a planned orders releasing at the parent level

Question 83

Extrinsic Forecast

Answer 83

Extrinsic indicators are supplied by such bodies as government agencies and trade assocations. The data must be assigned a period number in order to associate it with group demand data for the same period. Some examples of indicators are GDP, indistry sales, inventories housing starts, retail sales price indexes and unemployment rate.
This type of forecasting is for larger groups(product lines)

Question 84

Feedback

Answer 84

The information flow (up and down) through an entire system which allows for appropriate decisions and changes. Feedback is a requirement of a closed-loop MRPII system.

Question 85

Fill Rate

Answer 85

Synonym: Customer Service Ratio

A performance measure that is shown as a percentage of on-time vs promised delivery dates. It is stated both in dollars and units

Question 86

Final Assembly Schedule (FAS)

Answer 86

The Final assembly schedule is used primarily in a build-to -stock, assemble to customer order environment. Ordering these are numerous options from which the customer can choose. The FAS is developed once the customer order is in the order entry and the delivery date has been agreed upon.

Question 87

Finished Goods

Answer 87

Synonym: End Item/End Product

The final product that is to be sold to customers or used for warranty, service or repair of other products. These might be manufactured by the company or purchased as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) item for resale.

Question 88

Finish-to-Order

Answer 88

Synonym: Assemble-To-Order
Subassemblies that are produced to a forecast but not completed until a customer order is received.
Discription:
* Fewer products than build-to order, but volumes are higher
*Build to forecasted options
*Assemble option to customer specification.
*Medium profit margin per item

Question 89

Finish-To-Order: Impact on Inventory

Answer 89

• Little if any finished goods.
• Inventory based on option forecast
• Raw material held, especially for long lead-time items.

Question 90

Finite Forward scheduling

Answer 90

A scheduling technique that builds a schedule by starting with the earliest due date and proceeding forward through the routing, adding the standard lead-time for each step(work station) A Gantt chart might be used with this technique until the earliest ship date takes place in the MPS

Question 91

Finite Loading

Answer 91

A capacity-planning term for the technique of recognizing the capacity limits of a work center and then assigning no more work than can be completed for that time period.

Question 92

Firm Planned Order (FPO)

Answer 92

An order that has had the quantity and due date locked in. These orders are under the control of a person and not the MRP system. Changes might be suggested by the system but must be made manually. The Master Production schedule (MPS) has only firm planned orders.

Question 93

Fixed-Order Quantity

Answer 93

A lot-sizing technique where a consisten lot quantity is predetermined. Demand that exceeds the predetermined quantity is satisfied by increasing the lot quantity in multiples of the fixed quantity. For example if the fixed-order quantity is 25, the table below indicates the resulting lot quantities baased on the varying demand:
Net requirement Number of Lots
1 to 25 1 to 25
26 to 50 2 to 25
51 to 75 3 to 25
Note: more units are produced than actually required. FOQ technique increaseed inventory levels

Question 94

Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)

Answer 94

An expansion or extension of the flexible machining center, where an entire group of Numerical Control(NC) machines are networked to a central control system. The parts are moved via an automated transport system.

Question 95

Flow Manufacturing

Answer 95

Synonym: Flow Shop

A manufacturing environment where the machines, equipment and personnel are arranged for the most efficient material flow. Units produced are identical or very similar, so steps are repetitious and production is set at a given rate. There is very little time between batches.

Question 96

Fluctuation Inventory

Answer 96

Inventory that is carried above the net requirements in order to offset forecast error. The greater the error the larger the investment in inventory

Question 97

Forecast Error

Answer 97

The inaccuracy measured as an absolute value or a percentage of the sales forecast.

Forecast error= actual demand-forecast demand

The larger the forecast erro, the more inventory that must be carried.

Question 98

Forecasting

Answer 98

Determining orders and subsequent sales of the finished goods over a period of time. Forecasting can be improved through the use of forecasting models. Improvements in forecasting leads to less on hand inventory and mroe efficient operations.

Question 99

Balancing the line

Answer 99

In repetitive manufacturing regulating the assignments given to each workstation in order to ensure that all tasks at each workstation on the line are done in a close to the same time as possible.

Question 100

Bar code

Answer 100

A series of alternating bars and spaces printed or stamped on parts, containers lables or other media representing encoded information that can be read by electronic readers. Used for timely and accurate input to data to a computer system

Question 101

Batch Picking

Answer 101

A method of picking orders in which order requirements are aggregated by product across orders to reduce movement to and from product locations. The aggregated quantities of each product are then transported to a common area where the individual orders are constructed.

Question 102

Billing and collection costs

Answer 102

In transportation, the cost related to issuing invoices or bills. These amounts can be reduced by combining shipments in an order to limit transportation frequency.

Question 103

Bill of Lading

Answer 103

A carriers contract and receipt for goods the carrier agrees to transport from one place to another and to deliver to a designated person. In case of loss, damage ord delay the bill of lading is the basis for filling freight claims.

Question 104

Bonded Warehouse

Answer 104

Buildings or parts of buildings designated by the U.S Secretary of the Treasury for storing imported merchandise, operated under U.S Customers Supervision

Question 105

Break-Bulk

Answer 105

Dividing truckloads of homogeneous items into smaller, more approprate quantities for use.

Question 106

Buffer Management

Answer 106

In the theory of contraints a process in which all expediting in a shop is driven by what is scheudled to be in the buffers(contraints, shipping and assembly buffers) By expediting this material into the buffers, the system helps avoid idleness at the contraints and missed customer due dates.