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Master Planning of Resources (MPR) Practice Questions - APICS CPIM
Master Planning of Resources (MPR) Practice Questions - APICS CPIM
Master Planning of Resources (MPR) Practice Questions - APICS CPIM
Make-to-order
Make-to-stock
Assemble-to-order
Engineer-to-order
1) Which of the following manufacturing environments would have an order decoupling point that
is closest to the customer?
Make-to-order
Make-to-stock
Assemble-to-order
Engineer-to-order
Explanation
The customer order decoupling point is the point at which demand changes from
independent to dependent. In the make-to-stock environment, the order decoupling point
would be the finished goods inventory which represents the closest point to the end
customer.
2) Which of the following is not crucial to physical distribution planning?
Interplant shipments
Interplant shipments
Physical distribution activities are planned based on the information developed in demand
management activities. This includes customer delivery promises, interplant shipments,
inventory resupply as well as other information needed to plan the movement of goods to
the customer.
3) An items low-level code represents which of the following?
The low-level code represents the lowest level of usage of an item within all product
structure and is used to calculate gross requirements.
4) Which of the following is not true regarding scheduled receipts and planned order releases?
The major difference between scheduled receipt and planned order is that the first
represents a commitment while the latter only represents a plan. Scheduled receipts do
therefore not explode to gross requirements for components while planned orders do.
5) Which of the following is not a typical task of an MRP planner?
Order releases
Order releases
Production input/output control is not a typical task on an MRP planner. The planned
inputs and outputs of a work center are commonly established by capacity requirements
planning and maintained by manufacturing management.
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