APICS CSCP EVALUATION EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔An advantage of cycle counting over annual physical inventory is: - ✔✔timely
detection of problems.
✔✔What will happen with a time-series forecast if strong seasonality is not removed
prior to forecasting? - ✔✔It will predict a downward swing in demand to keep on going
down indefinitely.
✔✔A check cashing company has developed a strategic supply plan for opening a
number of new stores. If a risk assessment shows that many organizations are
considering converting from paychecks to providing payroll cards, avoiding the need for
their service, the supply plan developer should: - ✔✔call out this risk to decision
makers.
✔✔What needs to be phased out as part of an end-of-sales plan from a material
requirements planning perspective? - ✔✔Safety stocks and buffers
✔✔What technologies form the foundation of an intelligent supply chain because one
provides input data at a much finer grained level of detail than otherwise possible and
the other enables each object providing that data to have a "digital twin?" - ✔✔Internet
of Things (IoT) and intelligent asset management (IAM)
✔✔A manufacturer in a highly competitive industry wants to improve efficiency and
lower overall costs for its products by increasing information sharing and collaboration
with multiple suppliers and distribution partners. It is exploring a business-to-business
exchange to facilitate this effort. Which ownership model would work best for the
manufacturer? - ✔✔Virtual trading exchange
✔✔Organizations implementing a six sigma strategy are attempting to: - ✔✔reduce
variability.
✔✔An appropriate use of an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system is: -
✔✔identifying constraints within a facility.
✔✔If an organization wants to gain access to the U.S. Customs-Trade Partnership
Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) membership list of certified suppliers, it must: - ✔✔spend
funds on supply chain security enhancements as needed in accord with C-TPAT
guidelines.
✔✔An organization's core competency is in the service component of a product-service
package, and customers have praised their ability to quickly resolve problems. If most of
these problems are product quality issues, the bestway to improve this supply chain
, would be to: - ✔✔replace the process value supply chain partners who have poor
quality.
✔✔For smaller or less market-dominant organizations, which of the following would best
ensure that suppliers are complying with ethical standards? - ✔✔Use third-party
auditors agreed to by both parties.
✔✔A supply chain manager's superior asks her to draw up a project charter and be the
project manager on a project to continually improve inventory levels by conducting
ongoing audits. What should be clarified first? - ✔✔What will the end date for this
project be?
✔✔A company keeps running out of several inexpensive items that are critical to
production. The best solution for this problem is to: - ✔✔increase the minimum
inventory levels for the items.
✔✔Which is a reverse logistics best practice for an organization that places a strategic
priority on efficient, cost-effective returns processing and has the infrastructure to do
this at high levels of customer satisfaction? - ✔✔Retain the functions, but restrict returns
processing to selected facilities.
✔✔Successful implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) and
supplier relationship management (SRM) philosophies usually requires: - ✔✔revision of
decision-making processes.
✔✔Which type of supply base analysis would best reveal areas where giving more
business to selected suppliers would have the most bottom-line impact? - ✔✔Pareto
ranking of categories by their average spend per supplier, ranked from lowest to highest
average spend
✔✔A chain of grocery stores has implemented a customer loyalty program that includes
sending customers coupons four times per year. The coupons are for items each
customer has frequently purchased in the past but has not purchased in the past three
months. This program would typically be considered an element of: - ✔✔customer
relationship management.
✔✔Which of the following approaches to production scheduling accurately incorporates
the theory of constraints? - ✔✔Slow the process down to the bottleneck's speed.
✔✔Which of the following performance measures would be expected to increase with a
successful sales and operations planning (S&OP) implementation? - ✔✔Percentage of
on-time deliveries
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔An advantage of cycle counting over annual physical inventory is: - ✔✔timely
detection of problems.
✔✔What will happen with a time-series forecast if strong seasonality is not removed
prior to forecasting? - ✔✔It will predict a downward swing in demand to keep on going
down indefinitely.
✔✔A check cashing company has developed a strategic supply plan for opening a
number of new stores. If a risk assessment shows that many organizations are
considering converting from paychecks to providing payroll cards, avoiding the need for
their service, the supply plan developer should: - ✔✔call out this risk to decision
makers.
✔✔What needs to be phased out as part of an end-of-sales plan from a material
requirements planning perspective? - ✔✔Safety stocks and buffers
✔✔What technologies form the foundation of an intelligent supply chain because one
provides input data at a much finer grained level of detail than otherwise possible and
the other enables each object providing that data to have a "digital twin?" - ✔✔Internet
of Things (IoT) and intelligent asset management (IAM)
✔✔A manufacturer in a highly competitive industry wants to improve efficiency and
lower overall costs for its products by increasing information sharing and collaboration
with multiple suppliers and distribution partners. It is exploring a business-to-business
exchange to facilitate this effort. Which ownership model would work best for the
manufacturer? - ✔✔Virtual trading exchange
✔✔Organizations implementing a six sigma strategy are attempting to: - ✔✔reduce
variability.
✔✔An appropriate use of an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system is: -
✔✔identifying constraints within a facility.
✔✔If an organization wants to gain access to the U.S. Customs-Trade Partnership
Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) membership list of certified suppliers, it must: - ✔✔spend
funds on supply chain security enhancements as needed in accord with C-TPAT
guidelines.
✔✔An organization's core competency is in the service component of a product-service
package, and customers have praised their ability to quickly resolve problems. If most of
these problems are product quality issues, the bestway to improve this supply chain
, would be to: - ✔✔replace the process value supply chain partners who have poor
quality.
✔✔For smaller or less market-dominant organizations, which of the following would best
ensure that suppliers are complying with ethical standards? - ✔✔Use third-party
auditors agreed to by both parties.
✔✔A supply chain manager's superior asks her to draw up a project charter and be the
project manager on a project to continually improve inventory levels by conducting
ongoing audits. What should be clarified first? - ✔✔What will the end date for this
project be?
✔✔A company keeps running out of several inexpensive items that are critical to
production. The best solution for this problem is to: - ✔✔increase the minimum
inventory levels for the items.
✔✔Which is a reverse logistics best practice for an organization that places a strategic
priority on efficient, cost-effective returns processing and has the infrastructure to do
this at high levels of customer satisfaction? - ✔✔Retain the functions, but restrict returns
processing to selected facilities.
✔✔Successful implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) and
supplier relationship management (SRM) philosophies usually requires: - ✔✔revision of
decision-making processes.
✔✔Which type of supply base analysis would best reveal areas where giving more
business to selected suppliers would have the most bottom-line impact? - ✔✔Pareto
ranking of categories by their average spend per supplier, ranked from lowest to highest
average spend
✔✔A chain of grocery stores has implemented a customer loyalty program that includes
sending customers coupons four times per year. The coupons are for items each
customer has frequently purchased in the past but has not purchased in the past three
months. This program would typically be considered an element of: - ✔✔customer
relationship management.
✔✔Which of the following approaches to production scheduling accurately incorporates
the theory of constraints? - ✔✔Slow the process down to the bottleneck's speed.
✔✔Which of the following performance measures would be expected to increase with a
successful sales and operations planning (S&OP) implementation? - ✔✔Percentage of
on-time deliveries
