Week 9 - 2

Question 1

Planning & Control

Answer 1

Planning & Control ensures the company has enough resources to deliver what the market wants.

Question 2

Planning

Answer 2

Formalization of what is intended to happen sometime in the near furture

Question 3

Control

Answer 3

Is the process of coping with changes between the planning and execution

Question 4

Dependent demand

Answer 4

Dependent demand is the demand for component parts or subassemblies.

For example, this would be the microchips in the computer, the wheels on the bicycle, or the cheese on the pizza.

Question 5

Independent demand

Answer 5

Independent demand is the demand for a finished product, such as a computer, a bicycle, or a pizza.

Question 6

P:D Ratio

Answer 6

P - Total throughput from start to finish

D - Total length customers have to wait between asking and receiving the product

Design/obtain resource/create/deliver

Not always in that order

The choice of the P:D ratio is related to the performance objectives chosen by the company.

Question 7

Planning & Control activities

Answer 7

Scheduling - When to do things?
Loading - Hoe much to do?
Sequencing - In what order to do things?
Monitoring and control - Are activities going to plan?

Question 8

Loading – Finite X Infinite

Answer 8

Loading is an approach which allocates work to a work

Finite - There is a stablished limit and work above this limit is not accepted

Infinite - There is no limit to accepting work, the focus is on trying to cope with the workload

Question 9

Sequencing

Answer 9

Physical constraints
Nature of material used
Nature of work
Logic of the process

Customer Priority
Premium customer
Pre schduled
Traige

Due date (DD)
Delivery time

Question 10

Sequencing methods

Answer 10

LIFO - Last in first out
Last to arrive is the first one to leave

FIFO
First to arrive is the first to be served

LOT
The first job is the longest to complete

SOT
The first job is the shortest to be completed

Question 11

Forward scheduling

Answer 11

Start the work as soon as it arrives

Question 12

Backwards scheduling

Answer 12

Start the work as last as possible to deliver on time

Question 13

Monitoring & Controling

Push & Pull

Answer 13

Push - Activities are scheduled by a central system, such as MRP

Pull - The customer acts as a trigger, the pace is set by customer demand