2024 – Question 1 Describe three tactics for load smoothing in MRP Your response should be at

 

Question 1  

 

Describe three tactics for load smoothing in MRP.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question 2  

 

List, in order, the five steps of the graphical method of aggregate planning. Is it possible that these steps can be properly followed and the solution properly implemented without using a graph? Explain.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question 3

 

Compare the chase strategy versus level scheduling. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question 4

 

Four A washers, five B washers, two C bolts, and a D bolt are required to make one grill parts kit. If 100 grill parts kits are needed, how many more washers will be consumed than bolts? What process from Chapter 14 did you use to get the answer you did?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

 

 Course Textbook

 

Heizer, J., & Render, B. (2013). Operations management: Sustainability and supply chain management (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.