Instruction
1. What are the major differences between aggregate planning in manufacturing and aggregate planning in services?
2. What are the basic controllable variables of a production planning problem? What are the four major costs?
3.Define level scheduling. How does it differ from the pure strategies in production planning?
4. Why is it important for firms to focus on forecasting models?
5.What strategies are used by supermarkets, airlines, hospitals, banks, and cereal manufacturers to influence demand?
6. From the choice of simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential smoothing, and linear regression analysis, which forecasting technique would you consider the most accurate? Why?
7. Summarize all of the above