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Chapter 9 Material Requirements Planning Complete Test Bank

Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core, 5e (Jacobs)

Chapter 9 Material Requirements Planning

1) MRP stands for manufacturing requirements planning.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

2) MRP stands for material requirements planning.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

3) Manufacturing firms maintain bill of materials (BOM) files, which are simply a sequencing of everything that goes into a final product.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

4) MRP is based on dependent demand.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

5) MRP is most valuable where a number of products are made in batches using the same productive equipment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

6) The master production schedule states the number of items to be produced during specific time periods.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

7) MRP is least valuable in industries where a number of products are made in batches using the same productive equipment.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

8) MRP is a logical, easily understandable approach to the problem of determining the number of parts, components, and materials needed to produce each end item.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

9) MRP provides the schedule specifying when each part and component of an end item should be ordered or produced.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

10) The deeper one looks into the product creation sequence, the more the requirements of dependent demand items tend to become more "lumpy."

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

11) The deeper one looks into the product creation sequence, the more the requirements of dependent demand items tend to smooth out and become even over time.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

12) A master production schedule is an input to a material requirements planning (MRP) system.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

13) An input to the material requirements planning (MRP) system is an exception report.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

14) An input to the material requirements planning (MRP) system is an inventory records file.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

15) An output of MRP is a bill of materials (BOM) file.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

16) A BOM file is often called a product structure file or product tree because it shows how a product is put together.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

17) Computing the quantity of each component that goes into a finished product can be done by expanding (or exploding) each item in a product structure file and summing at all levels.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

18) A modular bill of materials includes items with fractional options.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

19) A modular bill of materials is the term for an item that can be produced and stocked as a subassembly.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

20) The MRP program performs its analysis from the bottom up of the product structure trees, imploding requirements level by level.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

21) Net change MRP systems are "activity" driven.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

22) In a net change MRP system, requirements and schedules are updated whenever a transaction is processed that has an impact on the item.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

23) In a net change MRP system, requirements and schedules are considered rigid and never updated.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

24) Net change MRP reflects the exact status of each item managed by the system in "real time."

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

25) Low level coding in MRP indicates the exact status of each item managed by the system in "real time."

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: An Example Using MRP

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

26) In a net change MRP program, a change in one item will result in a completely new inventory plan and schedule for every item in the master production schedule.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

27) Generally, determining lot sizes in MRP systems is simple.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

28) A lot-for-lot (L4L) lot sizing technique does not take into account setup costs or capacity limitations.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

29) The lot-for-lot (L4L) lot sizing technique minimizes carrying cost by taking into account setup costs and capacity limitations.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

30) Lot-for-lot (L4L) is the most common lot sizing technique.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

31) The economic order quantity (EOQ) lot sizing technique produces or acquires exactly the amount of product that is needed each time period with none carried over into future periods.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

32) The economic order quantity (EOQ) lot sizing technique uses the "square root formula" to balance setup cost, carrying cost and cost of stock-outs.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

33) The economic order quantity (EOQ) lot sizing technique uses the "square root formula" to balance setup cost and carrying cost.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

34) The least total cost method (LTC) lot-sizing technique calculates the order quantity by comparing the carrying cost and the setup (or ordering) costs for various lot sizes and then selects the lot in which these are most nearly equal.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

35) The least unit cost method (LUC) lot-sizing technique calculates the order quantity by comparing the carrying cost and the setup (or ordering) costs for various lot sizes and then selects the lot in which these are most nearly equal.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

36) The least unit cost method of lot-sizing technique adds ordering and inventory carrying cost for each trial lot size and divides by the number of units in each lot size, picking the lot size with the lowest unit cost.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

37) The least unit cost method of lot-sizing adds ordering, stock-out, and inventory carrying cost for each trial lot size and divides by the number of units in each lot size, picking the lot size with the lowest unit cost.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

38) "Projected available balance" is a term referring to unsold finished goods inventory.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: An Example Using MRP

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

39) Projected available balance is the amount of inventory that is expected only at the beginning of a period.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: An Example Using MRP

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

40) The three main inputs to an MRP system are the bill of materials, the master schedule and the inventory records file.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

41) When implemented correctly, MRP links all areas of the business.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

42) The time-phased plan specifying how many and when the firm plans to build each end item is called the materials requirements plan (MRP.)

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

43) The time-phased plan specifying how many and when the firm plans to build each end item is called the master production schedule (MPS).

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

44) Time fences are periods of time having some specified level of opportunity for the customer to make changes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

45) The customer grace period is a time-span having some specified level of opportunity for the customer to make changes.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

46) A BOM file is also called which of the following?

A) Product tree

B) Stocking plan

C) Inventory usage record

D) Production parts plan

E) Time bucket schedule

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

47) Which of the following industry types have high expected benefits from the application of MRP?

A) Fabricate-to-stock

B) Fabricate-to-order

C) Assemble-to-stock

D) Continuous process

E) Service and repair parts

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

48) Which of the following industry types have high expected benefits from the application of MRP?

A) Fabricate-to-order

B) Hospitals

C) Assemble-to-order

D) Aircraft manufacturers

E) Oil refineries

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

49) Which of the following industry types will not benefit greatly from the application of MRP?

A) Fabricate-to-order

B) Assemble-to-stock

C) Assemble-to-order

D) Manufacture-to-order

E) None of these

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

50) A product tree can do which of the following?

A) Help to compute component usage

B) Reduce product scrap

C) Reduce labor overtime

D) Reduce regular time labor

E) Locate raw material supplies

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

51) Which of the following is an input to the master production schedule (MPS)?

A) Inventory records file

B) The aggregate plan

C) The bill of materials

D) The exception report

E) Planned order schedules

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

52) Which of the following is one of the main purposes of a MRP system?

A) Educate personnel in basic work rules

B) To determine the amount of materials needed to produce each end item.

C) Stimulate the work force

D) Decrease labor requirements

E) Increase inventory accuracy

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

53) One of the main purposes of a MRP system is which of the following?

A) Track inventory levels.

B) Create productive capacity.

C) Decrease layers of management.

D) Develop schedules specifying when each component should be ordered or produced.

E) Upgrade manufacturing's professionalism.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

54) Which of the following is most closely related to the reason a firm might implement MRP?

A) So they can order the right parts

B) So they can order parts sufficient for immediate use

C) So they can insure that parts to arrive prior to when they are needed

D) To assure appropriate quality levels

E) To keep process costs between the LCL and the UCL

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

55) MRP systems seek to achieve which of the following?

A) Minimize lot sizes

B) Determine the number of dependent demand items needed

C) Relieve capacity bottlenecks

D) Provide a yardstick for future improvements

E) Improve on JIT methods

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

56) Which of the following is an input to the master production schedule?

A) Prototype products from product development

B) Aggregate component schedule

C) Peg reports

D) Exception reports

E) Forecasts of demand from customers

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: An Example Using MRP

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

57) Which of the following is an input to the master production schedule?

A) Bill of materials (BOM) file

B) Inventory records file

C) Exception reports

D) Planned-order schedules

E) None of these

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

58) Which of the following is an input file necessary to run an MRP system?

A) Bill of materials (BOM) file

B) Quality management report

C) Exception reports

D) Planned-order schedules

E) Purchasing contracts

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

59) Which of the following is an input file necessary to run an MRP system?

A) Exception report

B) Computer-aided-design files

C) Inventory records file

D) Personnel files

E) Planned order schedule

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

60) Which of the following is not a production activity report generated by MRP?

A) Exception report

B) Planning report

C) Performance control report

D) Planned-order schedules

E) Bill of materials report

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

61) In an MRP program, the program accesses the status segment of an inventory record according to specific periods called which of the following?

A) Cubed time units

B) Time buckets

C) BOM units

D) Time modules

E) Time lines

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

62) Which of the following files allows us to retrace a material requirement upward in the product structure through each level, identifying each parent item that created the demand?

A) Planning bill of materials file

B) Modular bill of materials file

C) Super bill of materials file

D) Exception report file

E) Peg record file

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

63) We would expect to see which of the following in an MRP system's inventory status file?

A) End items produced

B) Late/early delivery records

C) Scrap losses

D) Labor efficiency

E) Computer errors

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

64) In a typical inventory status record which of the following would you not expect to see?

A) Scrap allowance

B) Order quantity

C) Gross requirements

D) Planned-order releases

E) Lost items

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

65) Which of the following is considered a primary report in an MRP system?

A) Planning reports

B) Performance reports

C) Exception reports

D) Planned order schedules

E) Cycle counting reports

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

66) Which of the following is considered a secondary report in an MRP system?

A) Planned order schedule

B) Exceptions reports

C) Inventory record

D) Firm orders from known customers

E) Engineering change reports

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

67) Which of the following is considered a primary report in an MRP system?

A) Planned order schedule

B) Peg report

C) Planning report

D) Inventory accuracy report

E) Aggregate production plan report

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

68) Which of the following is the net requirement using an MRP program if the gross requirement is 1,250 and the inventory on hand is 50?

A) 1,200

B) 1,300

C) 1,150

D) 2,450

E) None of these

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

69) Which of the following is the net requirement using an MRP program if the gross requirement is 1,000 and the inventory on hand is 500?

A) 1,000

B) 950

C) 500

D) 400

E) 350

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

70) Which of the following is the planned-order release using an MRP program if the gross requirement is 5,000, inventory on hand is 1,200, and planned receipts are 800?

A) 7,000

B) 4,200

C) 3,000

D) 2,000

E) 1,200

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

71) Which of the following is the planned-order release using an MRP program if the gross requirement is 670 and the inventory on hand is 600?

A) 670

B) 600

C) 530

D) 70

E) None of these

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Material Requirements Planning System Structure

Learning Objective: 09-02 Understand how the MRP system is structured.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

72) Which of the following can be used for lot sizing in an MRP system?

A) Low-level coding

B) Time bucket size

C) Least unit cost

D) Inventory record file

E) Peg inventory

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

73) Which of the following is not a lot sizing technique used in MRP systems?

A) Lot-for-lot (L4L)

B) Economic order quantity (EOQ)

C) Least total cost (LTC)

D) Least unit cost (LUC)

E) Warehouse loading factor (WLF)

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

74) Under the lot-for-lot (L4L) lot sizing technique as used in MRP, we would expect which of the following?

A) A consistent lag of supply behind demand

B) Minimized carrying costs

C) Minimized set-up costs

D) A just in time management philosophy

E) Minimized quality problems

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

75) If annual demand is 6,125 units, annual holding cost is $5 per unit, and setup cost per order is $50, which of the following is the EOQ lot size?

A) 350

B) 247

C) 23

D) 185

E) 78

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

76) If annual demand is 12,000 units, annual holding cost is $15 per unit, and setup cost per order is $25, which of the following is the EOQ lot size?

A) 2,000

B) 1,200

C) 1,000

D) 300

E) 200

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

77) Which of the following is a dynamic lot-sizing technique that calculates the order quantity by comparing the carrying cost and the setup (or ordering) costs for various lot sizes and then selects the lot in which these are most nearly equal?

A) Economic order quantity

B) Lot-for-lot

C) Least total cost

D) Least unit cost

E) ABC analysis

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

78) Which of the following is a dynamic lot-sizing technique that calculates the order quantity by comparing the carrying cost and the setup (or ordering) costs for various lot sizes and then selects the lot size in which these are most nearly equal?

A) Kanban

B) Just-in-time system

C) MRP

D) Least unit cost

E) Least total cost

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

79) Which of the following is a dynamic lot-sizing technique that adds ordering and inventory carrying cost for each trial lot size and divides by the number of units in each lot size, picking the lot size with the lowest unit cost?

A) Economic order quantity

B) Lot-for-lot

C) Least total cost

D) Least unit cost

E) Inventory item averaging

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Learning Objective: 09-04 Evaluate and compare MRP lot-sizing techniques.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

80) The acronym ERP stands for:

A) Executive reliability profile—A human resources program that identifies fast-track middle managers.

B) Erratic response parameter—A quality metric indicating that a process is in or out of statistical control.

C) Enterprise resource planning—A data base of that ties together all application programs in a firm.

D) Emergency response plan—A document required by government indicating planned responses to emergency situations.

E) Elevated reply protocol—A list of executives authorized to deal with difficult customer concerns.

Difficulty: 1 Easy

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Remember

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

81) From the list below select the one item that the master scheduler does not do to ensure good master scheduling.

A) Include all demands from product sales, warehouse replenishment, spares, and interplant requirements.

B) Be involved with customer order promising.

C) Be visible to all levels of management.

D) Trade off conflicts to make it likely that manufacturing will meet its goals.

E) Identify and communicate all problems.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

82) Freezing the master schedule is:

A) not truly feasible because down the road it will become slushy again.

B) a commitment to precisely follow the master schedule in the future.

C) done to avoid the chaos of expediting and resultant overdue orders.

D) preserves the master schedule until it is ready to be used.

E) rarely attempted by manufacturing firms.

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Understanding Material Requirements Planning

Learning Objective: 09-01 Explain what material requirements planning (MRP) is.

Bloom's: Understand

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

83) In an MRP problem, A is an MPS item. Every A requires 2 B's and 3 C's. Every B requires 5 C's.  All lead times are two periods. All initial inventory values are 0. Use lot-for-lot method for order quantities for all items. If gross requirement for A is 500 in period 8, what will be the planned order release for B in period 4?

A) 0

B) 1,000

C) 500

D) 1,500

E) 6,500

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Performing MRP Calculations

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

84) In an MRP problem, A is an MPS item. Every A requires 2 B's and 3 C's. Every B requires 5 C's. All lead times are two periods. Initial inventory values for A is 100, B is 200 and C is 0. Use lot-for-lot method for order quantities for all items. If gross requirement for A is 800 in period 9, what will be the planned order release for B in period 5?

A) 1,600

B) 1,400

C) 700

D) 800

E) 1,200

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Performing MRP Calculations

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Reflective Thinking

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

85) In an MRP problem, A is an MPS item. Every A requires 3 B's and 2 C's. Every B requires 5 C's. All lead times are one period. Initial inventory values for all items are 0. Use lot-for-lot method for order quantities for all items. If gross requirement for A is 400 in period 10, what will be the planned order release for C in period 8?

A) 800

B) 1,600

C) 6,800

D) 6,000

E) 1,200

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Performing MRP Calculations

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

86) In an MRP problem, A is an MPS item. Every A requires 2 B's and 3 C's. Every B requires 5 C's. All lead times are two periods. All initial inventory values are 0. Use lot-for-lot method for order quantities for all items. What is the low level code (LLC) for B and C?

A) LLC for B is 2 and C is 1

B) LLC for both B and C are 2

C) LLC for B is 1 and C is 2

D) LLC for B is 0 and C is 1

E) LLC for all items are 1

Difficulty: 2 Medium

Topic: Performing MRP Calculations

Learning Objective: 09-03 Analyze an MRP problem.

Bloom's: Analyze

AACSB: Analytic

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

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Chapter Number:
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Created Date:
Aug 21, 2025
Chapter Name:
Chapter 9 Material Requirements Planning
Author:
F. Robert Jacobs

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