Chapter 05
Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services
True / Fal Questions
1. The term capacity refers to the maximum quantity an operating unit can process.
TRUE
Difficulty: Easy
TLO: 2
Taxonomy: Knowledge
2. Capacity decisions are usually one-time decisions; once they have been made, we know the limits of our operations.
FALSE
AACSB: RT
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Difficulty: Easy
TLO: 1
Taxonomy: Knowledge
3. Stating capacity in dollar amounts generally results in a consistent measure of capacity regardless of the actual units of measure.
FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 2
Taxonomy: Knowledge
4. Design capacity refers to the maximum output that can possibly be attained.
TRUE
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TLO: 2
Taxonomy: Knowledge
5. If the unit cost to buy something is less than the variable cost to make it, the decision to make or buy is bad solely on the fixed costs.
FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 4
Taxonomy: Knowledge
6. Increasing productivity and also quality will result in incread capacity.
TRUE
Difficulty: Easy
TLO: 3
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Taxonomy: Knowledge
7. Utilization is defined as the ratio of effective capacity to design capacity.
FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 2
Taxonomy: Knowledge
8. Increasing capacity just before a bottleneck operation will improve the output of the process. FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
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TLO: 3
Taxonomy: Knowledge
9. An example of an external factor that influences effective capacity is government safety regulations.
TRUE
Difficulty: Easy
TLO: 3
Taxonomy: Knowledge
10. Cost and competitive priorities reduce effective capacities.
FALSE
AACSB: RT
Difficulty: Hard
TLO: 3
Taxonomy: Synthesis
11. Capacity increas are usually acquired in fairly large "chunks" rather than smooth increments.
TRUE
AACSB: Ref
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 4
Taxonomy: Knowledge
12. In cost-volume analysis, costs that vary directly with volume of output are referred to as fixed costs becau they are a fixed percentage of output levels.
FALSE
Difficulty: Hard
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Taxonomy: Knowledge
13. The break-even quantity can be determined by dividing the fixed costs by the difference between the revenue per unit and the variable cost per unit.
TRUE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 5
Taxonomy: Knowledge
14. According to the reading on restaurant sourcing practices, only fast-food restaurants are able to ‘bring in' outsourced foods.
FALSE
Difficulty: Easy
TLO: 3
Taxonomy: Knowledge
15. The greater the gap between current and desired capacity the greater the opportunity for profit.
FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 1
Taxonomy: Knowledge
16. The current trend toward global operations has made capacity decisions much easier since we have the whole world in which to consider operations.
FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 1
Taxonomy: Knowledge
17. Capacity planning requires an analysis of needs; what kind, how much and when. TRUE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 1
Taxonomy: Knowledge
18. Waiting line analysis can be uful for capacity design, especially for rvice systems. TRUE
Difficulty: Easy
TLO: 2
Taxonomy: Knowledge
19. Capacity decisions often involve a long-term commitment of resources which, when implemented, are difficult or impossible to modify without major added costs.
TRUE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 1
Taxonomy: Knowledge
20. Outsourcing some production is a means of supporting a constraint.
FALSE
Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 4
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Multiple Choice Questions
21. Outsourcing some production is a means of _________ a capacity constraint.
A. Identifying
B. Modifying
C. Supporting
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Difficulty: Medium
TLO: 4
Taxonomy: Knowledge
