Assignment: MRP-I / MRP-II
1. Explain the purpose of Master Production Schedule (MPS)
2. Explain the term Projected Available Balance (PAB)
3. Explain the term Available to Promise (ATP)
4. Elaborate the Benefits of MRP
5. Explain how demand is chased using level production strategy
6. Explain various inputs required for ‘aggregate production plan’
7. What is the difference between Aggregate Production Plan and Master Production Schedule?
8. Explain various types in which Master Production Schedule can be expressed
9. Explain the terms make-to-order, assemble-to-order and make-to-stock
10. Explain V-A-T model with examples when to use which type
11. What do you understood by ‘MPS: Planning Horizons’, explain its significance
12. Explain the term Bill of Material (BoM) with examples
13. Explain the term ‘Rough Cut Capacity Planning’ (RCCP) with its importance in MRP
14. Explain various inputs required for Master Production Schedule
15. Explain the reasons why ‘Safety Stock’ is needed
16. Explain why the safety stock should be minimized and ultimately eliminated
17. Explain Final Assembly Schedule (FAS) with its significance
18. Differentiate between Independent Demand and Dependent Demand
19. Explain how ‘the demand for one item is related to the demand for another item’
20. Explain how for a given a quantity for the end item dependent demands are derived?
21. Differentiate between ‘planned-order receipts’ and ‘planned-order releases’
22. Explain the term ‘schedule receipts’
23. Explain the term ‘projected on hand’
24. Explain Gross-Net-Lot-Shift logic of MRP
25. Explain the MRP report consist of ‘changes’
26. Explain how the product design impacts Bill of Material
27. Explain various types of BoM
28. Explain the Hierarchy of Production Decisions
29. Differentiate between Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) and Capacity Requirement Planning (CRP)
30. Explain various Strategies applied to maintain production level
31. What do you understood by term ‘Routing’?
32. What are Pure Strategies used for level capacity
33. Differentiate between ‘queue’ and ‘stack’
34. Explain how MPS can be serving as a basis of communication?
35. Explain Capacity planning using overall planning factors (CPOPF)
36. Explain with Example the significance of Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)
37. Explain the details of Scheduling and how Shop-Floor Decisions are taken
38. Explain Production Planning Hierarchy
39. Differentiate between ‘pull-system’ and ‘push-system’
40. Explain the term ‘Pond-Draining Systems’
41. Explain ‘Focusing on Bottlenecks’ strategy; when to use it
42. Differentiate between Forward and Backward Scheduling
43. Explain Commonly Used Priority Rules
44. Explain how to Measure Scheduling Performance?
45. Differentiate between Finite and Infinite Loading
46. Differentiate between Material Requirement Planning & Manufacturing Resources Planning
47. Explain Closed-Loop MRP
48. Identify the need of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
49. Compare between MRP and JIT
50. Compare Synchronous Manufacturing with MRP