Thursday, December 16, 2010

Interview Questions: BOM basics

1. A list of component items associated with a parent item and information about how each item related to the parent item is called as
         Ans: Bill of Material     
2. An alternate list of component items you can use to produce an assembly is called as      
        Ans: Alternate Bill of Material          
3. An alternate manufacturing process you can use to produce an assembly.     
        Ans: Alternate Routing    
4. The number of units of a resource available in a department is called as
        Ans: Capacity Units 
5. How many Types of BOM item types are there?
        Ans: 4    
6. Select the correct BOM item type among the following?
      Ans:
a. standard Bill
b. model Bill,
c. option class
d. planning items
7. An assembly that uses the bill of material of another assembly as its bill is called as
        Ans: Common Bill of Material     
8. A routing that uses the routing of another assembly as its routing is called as
        Ans: Common Routing    
9. A set of items, bills, and routings can be deleted using ?
        Ans: Delete group
10. A business rule that restricts the entities to delete is called as
        Ans: Deletion Constraint
11. An area within your organization that consists of one or more people, machines, or
Suppliers is called as
        Ans: Department
12. A group of departments is called as
        Ans: Department Class  
13. A prototype part, material, subassembly, assembly, or product you have not yet released to production.
        Ans: Engineering item     
14. A resource whose capacity can be shared with other departments is called as
        Ans: Multi Department Resource
15.  The time required to receive a purchased item into inventory from the initial supplier receipt, such as the time required to deliver an order from the receiving dock to its final destination is called as  
        Ans: postprocessing lead time
16. The time required to place a purchase order or create a discrete job or repetitive schedule is called as        
        Ans: preprocessing lead time
17. The time required to procure or manufacture an item is called as
        Ans: processing lead time    
18. An optional identifier you can assign to a component on a bill is called as   
        Ans: Reference Designator    
19. Anything of value, except material and cash, required to manufacture, cost, and schedule products is called as
        Ans: Resource   
20. A scheduled period of work for a department within an organization is called as
        Ans: Shift
21. A group of capacity modifications for resource shifts to simulate, plan, or schedule
Capacity is called as
        Ans: Simulation Set
22. A calendar that identifies available workdays for one or more organizations is called as
         Ans: Workday Calendar
23. Dates that define plant or shift workday variations, including holidays, scheduled maintenance, or extended downtime is called as
        Ans: Workday Exceptions
24. The amount of a resource consumed at an operation is called as
        Ans: Usage Rate   
25. The frozen standard unit cost for a resource is called as
        Ans: Standard Rate   
26. Subdivision of an organization, representing either a physical area or a logical
Grouping of items, such as a storeroom or receiving dock is called as
        Ans: Sub inventory      

1 Responses to “Interview Questions: BOM basics”

Anonymous said...
January 16, 2014 at 8:52 PM

Excellent


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