Which concept covers routing and dispatching work to be accomplished through the production facility and performing supplier control; scheduling, control, measure, and evaluation of operations?

• A. Rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP)
• B. Radio frequency identification tag (RFID)
• C. Quality costs
• D. Production activity control (PAC)

Answer: (D)

Production Activity Control is the part of operations that coordinates the day-to-day execution on the shop floor. It handles routing and dispatching of work to the production facility, ensures materials and suppliers are aligned, and oversees scheduling, control, measurement, and evaluation of operations. In other words, it bridges planning with execution by releasing work orders, sequencing tasks, tracking progress, and feeding performance data back into the system to evaluate how operations are performing.

Rough-cut capacity planning focuses on high-level capacity checks to ensure the aggregate plan can be supported, not on the actual dispatching and shop-floor control. RFID is a technology for tagging and tracking items, useful for visibility but not for scheduling or controlling production. Quality costs deal with the financial impact of quality activities, not with managing production execution or supplier coordination.