Question

1. Which of the following is NOT a short-term planning activity?

• a. Master production scheduling
• b. Integrated business planning: S&OP and CPFR
• c. Strategic business plan
• d. Production and purchasing control

2. Manufacturing planning and control is a set of business processes that determine how you are going to use resources—e.g., capacity, equipment, people, and technology—to produce what your customers want when they want it.

True

False

3. Aggregate planning helps you align your production capacity with _________.

• a. inventory level
• b. market demand
• c. resource capacity
• d. none of the other items are correct

Answer 1

1. Strategic business plan and Integrated business planning: S&OP and CPFR are not short term planning activities. Both of these are long term planning activities.

Integrated business planning can be defined as a business planning process that uses the principles of S&OP and CPFR along the various parts of supply chain, customer demand and strategic planning, product and customer portfolios, with the objective to produce a single management process. A strategic business plan focusses on long terms goals and outlines the strategies to achieve them. Master production scheduling is a manufacturing plan for producing items in each time period.

2. True

Manufacturing planning and control is as defined in the question.

3. Market demand

Aggregate planning involves aligning the organization’s production capacity with expected market demand.