Lean Supply Chains Chapter.12 Full Test Bank - Supply Chain Management Core 5e Complete Test Bank by F. Robert Jacobs. DOCX document preview.
Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core, 5e (Jacobs)
Chapter 12 Lean Supply Chains
1) Lean production is an integrated set of activities designed to achieve high-volume production using minimal inventories of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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2) Henry Ford used JIT concepts as he streamlined his moving assembly lines to make automobiles in the early 1900s.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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3) Lean production requires a "push & pull" system of inventory replenishment.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Explain lean design principles.
Learning Objective: 12-04 Explain lean design principles.
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4) Lean production replaced JIT in the 1990s because JIT did not address the problem of reducing waste.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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5) Lean production is a management philosophy and a pull system throughout the plant.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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6) Lean production makes implementing green strategies in manufacturing processes more difficult.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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7) Group technology is a philosophy wherein similar parts are grouped together and the processes required to make the parts are arranged as a work cell.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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8) Group technology cells help to eliminate movement and queue (wait) time between operations.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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9) Group technology includes the set of psychological tests and training exercises given to group workers to ensure a high level of teamwork.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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10) In the textbook, the expression "quality at the source" means that we need to purchase the best quality a supplier or vendor can provide.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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11) "Quality at the source" requires factory workers to become their own inspectors.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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12) JIT production means that we produce the product before it is required so the customer does not wait for the product.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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13) The goal of JIT production is to drive all inventory queues lower.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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14) JIT is typically applied to nonrepetitive manufacturing.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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15) JIT manufacturing forces a firm to work with a lower water level despite safety hazards.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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16) A principle of value stream mapping is to concentrate on speeding up value-added operations.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
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17) One of the aims of value stream mapping to eliminate waste in a process.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
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18) Uniform plant loading is where you schedule production with different amounts of the same product each day of the week to permit variation to meet changing demand requirements.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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19) Uniform plant loading is a process of smoothing the production activity flow to dampen the reaction waves that normally occur in response to schedule variations.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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20) Value stream mapping is used to visualize product flows through various processing steps.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
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21) A kanban control system uses a signaling device to regulate JIT flows.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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22) Kanban means "symbol" or "box" in Japanese.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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23) Using the formula in the textbook the only parameters we need to determine the number of kanban car sets is the average number of units demanded over some time period, the container size, and the safety stock.
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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24) "Kanban Squares" is an educational game played in kanban training sessions.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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25) Respect for people is a key to Toyota's improvement ideas in manufacturing.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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26) In Japanese manufacturing, automation and robotics are used extensively to perform dull or routine jobs so employees are free to focus on important improvement tasks.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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27) Subcontractor networks are not very important in Japanese manufacturing.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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28) Company unions in Japan exist to foster a cooperative relationship with management.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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29) Firms in Japan tend to have short-term relationships with their suppliers and customers.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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30) One of the many lean techniques that have been successfully applied in service firms is the upgrading of quality.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
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31) One of the many lean techniques that have been successfully applied in service firms is the upgrading of housekeeping.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
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32) One of the many lean techniques that have been successfully applied in service firms is leveling facility load.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
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33) One of the many lean techniques that have been successfully applied in service firms is the eliminating of unnecessary activities.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
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34) One of the few lean techniques that does not work well in service firms is demand-pull scheduling.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
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35) The term "freeze window" refers to the practice of building quality into the process and not identifying quality by inspection.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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36) Preventive maintenance is emphasized in lean production to ensure that flows are not interrupted by downtime or malfunctioning equipment.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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37) Value stream mapping is used to identify all of the value-adding as well as non-value-adding processes that materials are subjected to within a plant.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
Bloom's: Remember
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38) Value stream mapping involves materials, not information.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
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39) A kaizen burst is a symbol on a value stream map.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
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40) A kaizen burst is an overfilled kanban container.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
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41) Automation is a key to lean procurement.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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42) Applying lean concepts in manufacturing balances increases in cost with quality improvement.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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43) Applying lean concepts to logistics is difficult unless either the manufacturer or the customer owns the logistics activities.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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44) Which of the following are related to lean production?
A) A philosophy of waste elimination
B) Lean consumption
C) Never running out of inventory
D) The Wahei-Subaru method
E) Full use of capacity
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
Bloom's: Remember
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45) The Toyota Production System identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?
A) Excess quality
B) Overproduction
C) Underproduction
D) Environmental
E) Over-thinking
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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46) The Toyota Production System identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?
A) Underproduction
B) Excess quality
C) Preventive maintenance
D) Product defects
E) Kaizen
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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47) The Toyota Production System identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?
A) Excess quality
B) Motion
C) Excess capacity
D) Underproduction
E) Excess demand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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48) Which of the following address elimination of waste under lean production?
A) Info-matic warehouse networks
B) Outsourced housekeeping
C) Quality at the source
D) Backflush
E) Bottom-round management
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
Bloom's: Remember
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49) Which of the following are elements that address elimination of waste under lean production?
A) Production ahead of demand
B) Group plant loading technology
C) Kanban production control system
D) Minimized run times
E) Full capacity utilization
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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50) Group technology (GT) is credited with which of the following benefits?
A) Reducing waiting time between process operations
B) Improving inventory discipline
C) Reducing required workforce skills
D) Improved labor relations
E) Improved small group functioning
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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51) Which of the following statements holds true for kanban production control systems?
A) The authority to produce or supply additional parts comes from upstream operations
B) In a paperless control system, containers can be used instead of cards
C) The cards or containers make up the kanban push system
D) They require substantial quantitative analysis prior to implementation
E) They have not been successful outside of Japan and the United States
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
Bloom's: Understand
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52) In setting up a kanban control system you need to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. If the expected demand during lead time is 25 per hour, the safety stock is 20% of the demand during lead time, the container size is 5, and the lead time to replenish an order is 5 hours, what is the number of kanban card sets needed?
A) 5
B) 20
C) 27
D) 30
E) 34
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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53) In setting up a kanban control system you need to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. If the expected demand during lead time is 50 per hour, the safety stock is 20% of the demand during lead time, the container size is 4. If the lead time to replenish an order is 8 hours, what number of kanban card sets is needed?
A) 60
B) 80
C) 90
D) 120
E) 150
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
Bloom's: Analyze
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54) You have been called in as a consultant to set up a kanban control system. The first thing to do is to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. Your research shows that the expected demand during lead time for a particular component is 150 per hour. You estimate the safety stock should be set at 25% of the demand during lead time. The tote trays used as containers can hold 8 units of stock and the lead time it takes to replenish an order is 2 hours. Which of the following is the number of kanban card sets necessary to support this situation?
A) 42
B) 47
C) 68
D) 89
E) 94
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
Bloom's: Analyze
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55) You have been called in as a consultant to set up a kanban control system. The first thing you do is to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. Your research shows that the expected demand during lead time for a particular component is 1,200 per hour. You estimate the safety stock should be set at 5% of the demand during lead time. The tote trays used as containers can hold 2 units of stock and the lead time to replenish an order is 10 hours. Which of the following is the number of kanban card sets necessary to support this situation?
A) 5,000
B) 5,500
C) 6,300
D) 6,500
E) 7,000
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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56) In designing a lean production facility layout a designer should do which of the following?
A) Design for work flow balance
B) Locate flexible workstations off line
C) Link operations through a push system
D) Balance capacity using job shop analysis
E) Always keep operations on a single floor of the factory
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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57) When implementing a lean production system, a stabilized schedule is achieved using which of the following?
A) Level scheduling
B) Demand pull
C) Demand push
D) Reduced lot sizes
E) Bottom-round management
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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58) To implement lean production schedules a firm would do which of the following?
A) Have excess capacity
B) Force demand
C) Hire a consultant
D) Bottom-up management
E) Implement kanban groups
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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59) In implementing a lean production system you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?
A) Open facilities near your factory
B) Focus workstation capacities
C) Backflush
D) Provide quality at the source
E) Reduce lead times
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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60) In implementing a lean production system you should work with suppliers to do which of the following?
A) Calculate lead times
B) Quality circles
C) Freeze windows
D) Make frequent deliveries
E) Achieve bottom-round management
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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61) To implement a flow process in developing a lean system a firm might do which of the following?
A) Improve capacity utilization
B) Build product in anticipation of demand
C) Reduce setup/changeover time
D) Eliminate some fixed costs
E) Implement groupware
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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62) To develop a lean manufacturing system a firm might do which of the following?
A) Eliminate anything that does not add value for the customer
B) Standardize product configurations
C) Process design with product design
D) Adopt a kaizen philosophy
E) Implement top-down management controls
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
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63) Imagine comparing a manufacturing operation using regular lot-sizing and the same operation with a kanban/lean production approach. What would be your expectations of the difference between the total cost (i.e., inventory holding costs + setup/ordering costs) of each?
A) Inventory holding cost will increase nonlinearly with inventory
B) Total costs will be lower for the regular lot-size operation
C) Total costs will be lower for the kanban/lean production operation
D) The order quantity will be larger for the kanban/lean production approach
E) As long as the total quantity is the same, total costs will be the same
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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64) In a lean production system we expect to see which of the following?
A) No extra inventory
B) Extra inventory of critical parts held "just-in-case"
C) More parts and fewer standardized product configurations
D) Managers being held responsible for quality of the work turned out
E) Closer management-labor relationships
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-01 Explain lean production.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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65) Which of the following is a lean production technique that is not reported in the textbook to have been successfully applied in service firms?
A) Organize problem-solving groups
B) Upgrade housekeeping
C) Upgrade quality
D) Freeze windows
E) Eliminate unnecessary activities
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
Bloom's: Understand
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66) An activity where the parts that go into each unit of a product are periodically removed from inventory and accounted for based on the number of units produced. is called which of the following?
A) Frozen window
B) Backflush
C) Level schedule
D) Group Technology
E) Kanban
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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67) Which of the following is a lean production technique that has been successfully applied in service firms?
A) Decision trees
B) Leveling the facility load
C) Kanban Card Systems
D) Fully utilizing capacity
E) Backflushing
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Services
Learning Objective: 12-05 Apply lean concepts to service processes.
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68) Which of the following is not listed in the textbook as a component of a lean supply chain?
A) Lean customers
B) Lean management
C) Lean logistics
D) Lean warehousing
E) Lean procurement
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Supply Chains
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
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69) Lean concepts discussed in the text do not include which of the following?
A) Group technology
B) Quality at the source
C) Just-in-time production
D) Preventive maintenance
E) Kaizen burst
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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70) In the context of a production process such as a manufacturing plant, what is the technique used to identify all of the value-adding as well as non-value-adding processes that materials are subjected to within a plant, from raw material coming into the plant through delivery to the customer?
A) Lean manufacturing
B) Lean supply chain
C) Kaizen
D) Value stream mapping
E) Lean production schedules
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Value Stream Mapping
Learning Objective: 12-03 Analyze supply chain processes using value stream mapping.
Bloom's: Remember
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71) Which of the following problems are not among those hidden when inventory levels are excessively high?
A) Inadequate worker motivation
B) Engineering design redundancies
C) Paperwork backlogs
D) Scrap
E) Productive equipment downtime
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Lean Production
Learning Objective: 12-02 Illustrate how lean concepts can be applied to supply chain processes.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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72) You have been called in as a consultant to set up a kanban control system. The first thing to do is to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. Your research shows that the expected demand during lead time for a particular component is 150 per hour. You estimate the safety stock should be set at 25 percent of the demand during lead time. The tote trays used as containers can hold 8 units of stock, and the lead time it takes to replenish an order is 2 hours. You found that the number of kanban cards needed is 47. Your client now tells you that they miscalculated the demand and the true demand is 300 per hour. All other things remain the same. What is the most appropriate answer from the choices below?
A) Number of kanban cardsets will stay the same
B) Number of kanban cardsets will decrease.
C) Number of kanban cardsets will be 94
D) Number of kanban cardsets will be 47
E) Number of kanbancardsets will be 23.5 (rounded to 24).
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chain Design Principles
Learning Objective: 12-04 Explain lean design principles.
Bloom's: Understand
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73) In a kanban card calculation problem, other things remaining the same (that is changing only one variable at a time). Select the most appropriate answer.
A) Number of kanban cards required will increase linearly as demand increases.
B) Number of kanban cards required will decrease linearly as demand increases.
C) Number of kanban cards required will decrease nonlinearly as the container size increases.
D) Number of kanban cards required will decrease linearly as the container size increases.
E) Number of kanban cards required will increase linearly as demand increases and number of kanban cards required will decrease nonlinearly as the container size increases.
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chain Design Principles
Learning Objective: 12-04 Explain lean design principles.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
74) Consider the relationship between the number of kanban cars sets needed with safety stock and the container size. Choose the most appropriate answer.
A) As safety stock increases, the number of kanban card sets needed will decrease
B) As safety stock decreases, the number of kanban card sets needed will increase
C) As container size increases, the number of kanban card sets needed will increase
D) As container size increases, the number of kanban card sets needed will decrease
E) As container size decreases, the number of kanban card sets needed will decrease
k | = | Expected demand during lead time + Safety stock |
Size of the container | ||
| = | DL(1 + S ) |
C |
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Lean Supply Chain Design Principles
Learning Objective: 12-04 Explain lean design principles.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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