Behavioral ERP Operations Interview Questions & Answers:

1. MRP stands for:

► 1. Manufacturing Resource Planning
► 2. Master Resources Production
► 3. Management Reaction Planning
► 4. Materials Requirements Planning

Materials Requirements Planning

2. MPS stands for:

► 1. Material Planning System
► 2. Master Planning System
► 3. Material Production Schedule
► 4. Master Production Schedule

Master Production Schedule

3. Closed Loop MRP means:

► 1. Actual sales are netted off the forecasts in the MPS
► 2. Actual inventory is counted regularly and adjustment made to the inventory records
► 3. Capacity and resource planning is included in the MRP logic
► 4. Unused materials are returned to stores and recorded back into the system

Capacity and resource planning is included in the MRP logic

4. Optimized production technology (OPT) is a computer-based technique and tool, which helps to schedule production systems. Which of the following are not principles of OPT?

► 1. Bottlenecks govern throughput
► 2. Capacity is “king”
► 3. Process batch should be variable
► 4. Balance flow is what is required

Capacity is “king”

5. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been criticized on a number of grounds. Which of the following is not a common criticism of ERP?

► 1. It can have a disruptive effect on the organization's operations
► 2. It does not allow decisions and databases from all parts of the organization to be integrated
► 3. Implementation is expensive
► 4. The effect it has on businesses is disappointing

It does not allow decisions and databases from all parts of the organization to be integrated

6. In MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) the Bill of Materials is:

► 1. The sum of stock-on-hand and work-in-progress
► 2. A list of required safety stock items
► 3. The required output from a process over time
► 4. The difference between planned receipts and current stocks
► 5. The product structure showing where common parts are used

The product structure showing where common parts are used

7. The outputs of a MRP II system are:

► 1. Capacity requirement plans / stock quantities / stock locations
► 2. Stock quantities / Bills of Materials / Master Production Schedule
► 3. Sales order priorities / Bills of Materials / Material Requirement Plans
► 4. Master Production Schedule / capacity requirement plans / stock locations
► 5. Material Requirement Plans / scheduled purchase orders / capacity requirement plans

Material Requirement Plans / scheduled purchase orders / capacity requirement plans

8. Three inputs for every MRP system are:

► 1. Sales forecast, delivery costs, capacity plan
► 2. Master Production Schedule, Bill of Materials, sales forecast
► 3. Stock on hand, Master Production Schedule, Bill of Materials
► 4. Average replenishment time; re-order point, economic order quantity
► 5. Bill of Materials, sales forecast, sales history

Stock on hand, Master Production Schedule, Bill of Materials