Question & Answer: The following table is an example of a(n) Aggregate Plan Materials Requirement Plan Master Production…

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Answer: c. Master production schedule

Here, notice that the given table shows the weekly numbers for different products, yet not all the weeks are assigned with a value, this clearly indicates that this table is nothing but the Master production schedule (MPS) forms the basis for the MRP.

The other given options are slightly different from each other and doesn’t directly be the table given,

Aggregate planning – It is an integral process of any organization goods producing organization aimed at determining ideal levels of production, inventory, capacity, subcontracting, expected stock-out, and pricing over a target time horizon.

Material Resource Planning or requirements plan (MRP), as name suggest, is to do with planning the material requirements through purchasing parts from suppliers.

Capacity plan – It is the total capacity that needs to be installed for the different products according to the demand estimates or customer requirements, the values for this plan with will more or less constant over the week without null values. So, thus, the given table cannot be a capacity plan.