PFMP · Question #508
You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and…
The correct answer is B. Maximize both the unused capacity and the unmet demands. This answer is inconsistent with standard portfolio resource management principles. Logically, optimizing supply and demand means minimizing both unused capacity (avoiding wasted resources) and unmet demands (ensuring component needs are fulfilled) - which corresponds to option…
Question
You are managing a portfolio for your company and are trying to balance the tasks that will be done internally based on the availability and the ones that will be outsourced. Managing supply and demand is a recurring activity in the portfolio life cycle and results in changes in resource utilization and resource efficiency. Which of the below helps in optimizing the supply and demand?
Options
- AMinimize both the unused capacity and the unmet demands
- BMaximize both the unused capacity and the unmet demands
- CMaximize the unused capacity and minimize the unmet demands
- DMinimize the unused capacity and maximize the unmet demands
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A22% (5)
- B61% (14)
- C4% (1)
- D13% (3)
Explanation
This answer is inconsistent with standard portfolio resource management principles. Logically, optimizing supply and demand means minimizing both unused capacity (avoiding wasted resources) and unmet demands (ensuring component needs are fulfilled) - which corresponds to option A. Option B ('Maximize both unused capacity and unmet demands') would mean deliberately wasting resources and leaving needs unmet, which is counterproductive. This question likely contains an error, and option A represents the correct portfolio management principle for supply and demand optimization.
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