EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ A mass customization strategy has three important competitive advantages.
Which of the following is NOT one of them?.
Answer: eliminate raw material inventories
◍ Supply Chain Integration.
Answer: - strives to work with its customers and suppliers.- ensures that
everyone benefits from improved flows of services, materials, and
information.- includes its suppliers earlier into the design of new services or
products.(all of the above)
◍ In general, companies perform aggregation along three dimensions:.
Answer: services or products, labor, and time.
◍ How can late deliveries of materials or delays in essential services create
supply chain disruptions?.
Answer: can force a firm to switch its schedule from production of one
product model to another
◍ Pulling the Plug too Quickly.
Answer: making a decision to outsource a process before making a
good-faith effort to fix the existing one. Major mistake.
◍ Transactional Supply Chain Coordination.
Answer: providing access to purchase orders, work orders, sale orders,
invoices, payments
◍ Types of Waste - Inappropriate Processing.
Answer: Using expensive high-precision equipment when simpler machines
, would suffice
◍ A firm's internal program in employee involvement includes which of the
following considerations?.
Answer: Defining who the customer is
◍ An MRP system provides which of the following advantages?.
Answer: Automatic update of the dependent demand and replenishment
schedules of components when parent schedules change.
◍ Which of the following is a function of the customer relationship process?.
Answer: - to resolve customer problems- to facilitate the transmission and
tracking of orders- to build relationships with customers(all of the above)
◍ In acceptance sampling, if the sample passes the test then.
Answer: the entire quantity of items is accepted.
◍ The phenomena that the variability in order quantities tend to increase as
you proceed upstream in the supply chain is referred to as the.
Answer: bullwhip effect.
◍ Poka-yoke.
Answer: mistake-proofing methods aimed at designing fail-safe systems for
minimizinghuman error.
◍ Matching the demand rate with the production rate is a primary lever to
reduce.
Answer: anticipation inventory.
◍ Cooperative Orientation.
Answer: buyer and seller act as partners with a focus on long-term
commitment and joint work. More information sharing. Number of suppliers
reduced & supply chain simplified. Sole sourcing is the awarding of a
contract to one supplier.
◍ Lewis Machine Tools is considering reducing lot size to reduce cycle
inventory. Which of the following is a change that should be made for lot
size reduction to be effective?.
, Answer: Increasing repeatability
◍ Backward integration.
Answer: occurs when a firm owns or controls the inputs it usesGM buys
bumpers or makes them in house
◍ The Gantt chart takes two basic forms. Which form can be used to schedule
the capacity of facilities?.
Answer: the workstation chart
◍ Efficient supply chains.
Answer: Make-to-stock (MTS): product built to a sales forecast and sold to
the customer from finished goods stock.Cars CHEAP
◍ The plan-do-study-act cycle illustrates.
Answer: continuous improvement.
◍ Of the seven key principles of the theory of constraints, which is the first
principal?.
Answer: the focus should be on balancing flow, not on balancing capacity
◍ In the order fulfillment process, low-cost operations and delivery speed can
be enhanced with a technique called cross-docking. Which of the following
is typically a result of cross-docking?.
Answer: a decrease in inventory investment
◍ Inventory used to absorb uneven rates of demand or supply is referred to as.
Answer: anticipation inventory.
◍ For class C SKUs, why is much looser inventory control appropriate?.
Answer: The inventory holding cost of class C SKUs tends to be low.
◍ Types of Waste - Overproduction.
Answer: Manufacturing an item before it is needed creating excessive lead
times and inventory.
◍ The practice of _______ involves identifying, assessing, and managing the
flow of environmental waste and finding ways to reduce it and minimize its
impact on the environment..