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________ is the process of breaking the aggregate plan into greater detail.

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The objective of aggregate planning is usually to meet forecast demand while smoothing employment and driving down inventory levels over the planning period.

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What is the typical time horizon for aggregate planning?

A manufacturer of industrial seafood processing equipment wants you to develop an aggregate plan for the four quarters of the upcoming year using the following data on demand and capacity. a.Find the optimal plan using the transportation method. b.What is the cost of the plan? c.Does any regular time capacity go unused? How much in what periods? d.What capacity went unused in this solution? (List in detail. )

A large consulting firm is deciding on if its workforce should be expanded,maintained,or decreased.Suppose that demand is given in week-long projects,and that a consultant can work on 3 projects each month (1 week off for personal leave and/or other duties such as conferences,etc).Currently there are 25 consultants.Ten consultants are trained for LEAN and 15 for Six Sigma,with 5 of those consultants being overlaps (the consultant is trained for BOTH LEAN and Six Sigma).Assume that all consultants can do the general work.Complete the table (the forecast period is an upcoming month)and prepare a recommendation.

One of the four things needed for aggregate planning is a logical overall unit for measuring sales and output.

Which of the following aggregate planning methods does not work if hiring and layoffs are possible?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of level scheduling?

In the service sector,which of the following aggregate planning strategies might direct your client to a competitor?

What is the primary management challenge when implementing revenue management?

The level scheduling strategy allows lower inventories than the pure chase strategy.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four things needed for aggregate planning?

A firm uses graphical techniques in its aggregate planning efforts.Over the next twelve months (its intermediate period) ,it estimates the sum of demands to be 105,000 units.The firm has 250 production days per year.In January,which has 22 production days,demand is estimated to be 11,000 units.A graph of demand versus level production will show that:

Which of the following is NOT consistent with level scheduling?

In level scheduling,what is kept uniform from month to month?

Which of the following is the term used for intermediate-range capacity planning with a time horizon of three to eighteen months?

________ is an approach to determine the quantity and timing of production for the intermediate future.

Top executives tend to focus their attention on which type of forecasts?

What are successful techniques of controlling the cost of labor involved in service firms?

Most people would argue that a service firm must follow chase or mixed strategies.On the other hand,most state agencies,which are clearly service-oriented,are not at all able to "chase" demand.Discuss how they manipulate demand to allow the level strategy to be used.