SCMT 364 ASSESSMENT 1 TO
ASSESSMENT 2 (ABBEY) EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What are used to make any manufactured item at some level? - ANS Production Processes
What are the 3 stages of a production process? - ANS - Source the Parts
- Make the Product
- Deliver the Product
What is the time needed to respond to a customer order? - ANS Lead Time
What is where inventory is positioned to allow entities in the supply chain to operate
independently; inventory buffering zones (triangles on the example slide)? - ANS Customer
Order Decoupling Points
What is a means of achieving high levels of customer service with minimal inventory
investment? - ANS Lean Manufacturing
What generally work against each other in regards to lean manufacturing? - ANS Lead Time
and inventory work against each other
What type of firm serves customers from finished goods inventory? - ANS Make-to-Stock
What type of firm combines a number of preassembled modules to meet a customer's
specifications? - ANS Assemble-to-Order
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,What type of firm makes the customer's product from raw materials, parts and components? -
ANS Make-to-Order
What type of firm works with the customer to design and then make the product? -
ANS Engineer-to-Order
What are some examples of make-to-stock products? - ANS Televisions, furniture, packaged
food
What is the essential issue in satisfying customers (meeting demand)? - ANS Balancing the
level of inventory against the level of customer service
What should you use to achieve higher service levels for a given inventory investment? -
ANS Lean Manufacturing
What is a primary task of the assemble-to-order firm? - ANS Define a customer's order in
terms of alternative components because these are what is carried in inventory
What are the significant advantages in an assemble-to-order firm from moving the customer
decoupling point from finished goods to components? - ANS Postponement
What is an example of a make-to-order product? - ANS Boeing's process for making
commercial aircraft
What is an example of an assemble-to-order product? - ANS Dell's Laptops
Paint at Home Depot
Where is the customer order decoupling point for make-to-order firms? - ANS Either in raw
materials at the manufacturing site or the supplier inventory
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, How does Engineer-to-Order differentiate itself from Make-to-Order? - ANS ETO
differentiates itself in the amount of customer input into the material choices and/or system
design
What type of process is where the product remains in a fixed location and manufacturing
equipment is moved to the product? - ANS Project (Airplane or Rocket)
What type of process is where similar equipment or functions are grouped together; materials
move to the machine? - ANS Workcenter (job shop)
What type of process involves a dedicated area where products that are similar in processing
requirements are produced? - ANS Manufacturing Cell
What type of process is where work processes are arranged according to the progressive steps
by which the product is made? - ANS Assembly line
What type of process is an assembly line only the flow is continuous (like with liquids)? -
ANS Continuous Process
What is the most common approach to developing a work-center layout? - ANS Arrange
work-centers in a way that optimizes the movement of material
What is formed by allocating dissimilar machines to cells that are designed to work on similar
products? - ANS Manufacturing Cell
What is a standard approach to choosing among alternative processes or equipment; seeks to
determine the point in units produced where total revenue and total cost are equal? -
ANS Break-Even Analysis
What is the formula for Breakeven Demand? - ANS (Purchase cost of process or equipment) /
(Price per unit - cost per unit)
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ASSESSMENT 2 (ABBEY) EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What are used to make any manufactured item at some level? - ANS Production Processes
What are the 3 stages of a production process? - ANS - Source the Parts
- Make the Product
- Deliver the Product
What is the time needed to respond to a customer order? - ANS Lead Time
What is where inventory is positioned to allow entities in the supply chain to operate
independently; inventory buffering zones (triangles on the example slide)? - ANS Customer
Order Decoupling Points
What is a means of achieving high levels of customer service with minimal inventory
investment? - ANS Lean Manufacturing
What generally work against each other in regards to lean manufacturing? - ANS Lead Time
and inventory work against each other
What type of firm serves customers from finished goods inventory? - ANS Make-to-Stock
What type of firm combines a number of preassembled modules to meet a customer's
specifications? - ANS Assemble-to-Order
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,What type of firm makes the customer's product from raw materials, parts and components? -
ANS Make-to-Order
What type of firm works with the customer to design and then make the product? -
ANS Engineer-to-Order
What are some examples of make-to-stock products? - ANS Televisions, furniture, packaged
food
What is the essential issue in satisfying customers (meeting demand)? - ANS Balancing the
level of inventory against the level of customer service
What should you use to achieve higher service levels for a given inventory investment? -
ANS Lean Manufacturing
What is a primary task of the assemble-to-order firm? - ANS Define a customer's order in
terms of alternative components because these are what is carried in inventory
What are the significant advantages in an assemble-to-order firm from moving the customer
decoupling point from finished goods to components? - ANS Postponement
What is an example of a make-to-order product? - ANS Boeing's process for making
commercial aircraft
What is an example of an assemble-to-order product? - ANS Dell's Laptops
Paint at Home Depot
Where is the customer order decoupling point for make-to-order firms? - ANS Either in raw
materials at the manufacturing site or the supplier inventory
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, How does Engineer-to-Order differentiate itself from Make-to-Order? - ANS ETO
differentiates itself in the amount of customer input into the material choices and/or system
design
What type of process is where the product remains in a fixed location and manufacturing
equipment is moved to the product? - ANS Project (Airplane or Rocket)
What type of process is where similar equipment or functions are grouped together; materials
move to the machine? - ANS Workcenter (job shop)
What type of process involves a dedicated area where products that are similar in processing
requirements are produced? - ANS Manufacturing Cell
What type of process is where work processes are arranged according to the progressive steps
by which the product is made? - ANS Assembly line
What type of process is an assembly line only the flow is continuous (like with liquids)? -
ANS Continuous Process
What is the most common approach to developing a work-center layout? - ANS Arrange
work-centers in a way that optimizes the movement of material
What is formed by allocating dissimilar machines to cells that are designed to work on similar
products? - ANS Manufacturing Cell
What is a standard approach to choosing among alternative processes or equipment; seeks to
determine the point in units produced where total revenue and total cost are equal? -
ANS Break-Even Analysis
What is the formula for Breakeven Demand? - ANS (Purchase cost of process or equipment) /
(Price per unit - cost per unit)
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