A firm uses the pure chase strategy of aggregate planning. It produced 1000 units in the last period.

Demand in the
The jobs listed below need to be completed. Assume that it is now day 140. If the jobs are sequenced according to t
A work center is interested in limiting work-in-process by not allowing production to start again until the current batch
Which of the following is consistent with a pure chase strategy?
What information is necessary for an operations manager to make effective use of a dependent inventory demand m
Aggregate planning would entail which of the following production aspects at BMW for a 12-month period?
A forecasting method has produced the following over the past five months. What is the mean absolute deviation?

If an assignment problem consists of 6 workers and 7 projects:

Which of the following statements about time-series forecasting is true?
If Brandon Edward were working to develop a forecast using a moving averages approach, but he noticed a detecta
There are two jobs to be assigned to two workers. The profit for worker A on job 1 is $5 and on job 2 is $8. The profi
Which of the following aggregate planning strategies is a capacity option?
Five welding jobs are waiting to be processed. Their processing times and due dates are given below. Using the crit
tics would be most representative of following a chase strategy?

Forecast Error |Error|

11 -1 1
10 -2 2
8 2 2
6 0 0
8 1 1

Processi Job due

ng Time date
(days) (days)
4 7
2 4
8 11
3 5
5 11