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Homework week 4

Operations Management

 

Chapter 13

3. Define aggregate planning.
4. List the strategic objectives of aggregate planning. Which one of these is most often addressed by the quantitative techniques of aggregate planning? Which one of these is generally the most important?

Chapter 14

12. Identify five specific requirements of an effective MRP system.
13. What are the typical benefits of ERP?

Chapter 15

4. Name five priority sequencing rules. Explain how each works

to assign jobs.

12. What are the advantages to finite capacity scheduling?

15.4 J.C. Howard’s medical testing company in Kansas wishes to assign a set of jobs to a set of machines. The following table provides the production data of each machine when performing the specific job:

 

JOB

 

1. a) Determine the assignment of jobs to machines that will maximize total production.
2. b) What is the total production of your assignments?

Chapter 16

2. What is JIT?
3. What is TPS?