Question

Regarding the master production schedule (MPS):

a. the external suppliers are sent copies of the MPSs in advance.
b. the time horizon of the MPSs must equal the time horizon of the selected aggregate plan.
c. the capacity requirements of the MPSs must equal or exceed the available capacity of the selected aggregate plan.
d. all of the above.
e. none of the above.

Answer 1

All the given options are correct according to Master Production schedule because,

It is schedule planning to produce individual commodities, based on the customer order, company is going to produce or start production planning, so external suppliers has to sent copies of the MPSs in advance, this system always concentrate on aggregate planning and time horizon must equal to selected aggregate plan and capacity requirement of the MPSs must equal or at least equal to selected aggregate plan’s capacity.

Before going to apply this tool, people should remain all these things.

Answer is d