WGU C720 UPDATED CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What type of supply chain structure focuses on getting products quickly to market? -
✔✔Agile supply chain structure
✔✔Which equipment can be used in a just-in-time (JIT) environment to reduce setup
time? - ✔✔General-purpose machines
✔✔A printing company prints a magazine dedicated to reporting on new scientific
discoveries. The company has almost no paper inventory, but rather orders and then
receives the paper a day before it prints an edition of the magazine.
Which inventory control system is the printing company using? - ✔✔Just-in-time
inventory
✔✔Strategic planning is based on a firm's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the
threats and opportunities in the external environment.
Regarding strategic planning, what is JIT? - ✔✔A strength
✔✔What can be used in a company with a just-in-time (JIT) environment to reduce
inventory? - ✔✔A pull system
✔✔Products A and B for a manufacturing company are level scheduled. Daily
requirements are 15 units for product A and 20 units for product B.
If three units of product A and four units of product B are produced in each cycle, how
many daily cycles should be scheduled? - ✔✔5
✔✔What helps to reduce setup time in a JIT system?
Choose 2 answers - ✔✔Placing the needed tools and equipment in predetermined
locations and Shortening the downtime of equipment
✔✔Which competitive advantage would a company gain from having suppliers
managing inventory within the company's facilities? - ✔✔A decrease in overhead costs
✔✔A company desires to increase the throughput of the products that it manufactures.
The firm finds a bottleneck in the availability of its raw materials.
What is the firm accomplishing? - ✔✔Identifying the system constraint
, ✔✔What are two steps in the theory of constraints?
Choose 2 answers - ✔✔Identifying the system constraint and Elevating the system
constraint
✔✔A road building crew is supplied with hot asphalt mix from a supplier that is located
30 miles from the worksite. As the road extends, the distance increases from the
asphalt supplier. Currently, the bottleneck for the project has been the throughput rate
of the paving equipment being used on the road.
What will happen to the bottleneck as the project nears completion? - ✔✔It will change
to become the transportation time of the asphalt trucks.
✔✔A semiconductor manufacturer recently purchased a copper ore mine to ensure
access to a copper supply for a long period of time.
Which supply chain integration strategy did this manufacturer use? - ✔✔Backward
vertical integration
✔✔A company manufactures ceramic coffee cups. The company employs automated
pottery making machines in creating the ceramic coffee cups.
Which one of the production steps is a bottleneck? - ✔✔Firing the coffee cups in a kiln
✔✔A folding chair manufacturer continues to make the same five chairs it has made for
the past 15 years. It has worked to minimize inventory throughout the supply chain by
sharing information with component suppliers and continuous improvement.
Which supply chain integration strategy is the chair manufacturer using? - ✔✔Lean
supply chain
✔✔An electric company wants to increase service reliability by building new high-
voltage wiring. Because service improves for other electric companies on the same grid,
the company partners with other companies to plan routes and finance construction.
Which supply chain integration strategy is the electric company using? - ✔✔Strategic
alliance
✔✔An aircraft manufacturer has many highly complex subassemblies such as seats,
cockpit, engines, and landing gear. It works with other manufacturers to design and
build these subassemblies while doing project management and final assembly
themselves.
Which supply chain integration strategy is the aircraft manufacturer using? -
✔✔Outsourcing
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What type of supply chain structure focuses on getting products quickly to market? -
✔✔Agile supply chain structure
✔✔Which equipment can be used in a just-in-time (JIT) environment to reduce setup
time? - ✔✔General-purpose machines
✔✔A printing company prints a magazine dedicated to reporting on new scientific
discoveries. The company has almost no paper inventory, but rather orders and then
receives the paper a day before it prints an edition of the magazine.
Which inventory control system is the printing company using? - ✔✔Just-in-time
inventory
✔✔Strategic planning is based on a firm's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the
threats and opportunities in the external environment.
Regarding strategic planning, what is JIT? - ✔✔A strength
✔✔What can be used in a company with a just-in-time (JIT) environment to reduce
inventory? - ✔✔A pull system
✔✔Products A and B for a manufacturing company are level scheduled. Daily
requirements are 15 units for product A and 20 units for product B.
If three units of product A and four units of product B are produced in each cycle, how
many daily cycles should be scheduled? - ✔✔5
✔✔What helps to reduce setup time in a JIT system?
Choose 2 answers - ✔✔Placing the needed tools and equipment in predetermined
locations and Shortening the downtime of equipment
✔✔Which competitive advantage would a company gain from having suppliers
managing inventory within the company's facilities? - ✔✔A decrease in overhead costs
✔✔A company desires to increase the throughput of the products that it manufactures.
The firm finds a bottleneck in the availability of its raw materials.
What is the firm accomplishing? - ✔✔Identifying the system constraint
, ✔✔What are two steps in the theory of constraints?
Choose 2 answers - ✔✔Identifying the system constraint and Elevating the system
constraint
✔✔A road building crew is supplied with hot asphalt mix from a supplier that is located
30 miles from the worksite. As the road extends, the distance increases from the
asphalt supplier. Currently, the bottleneck for the project has been the throughput rate
of the paving equipment being used on the road.
What will happen to the bottleneck as the project nears completion? - ✔✔It will change
to become the transportation time of the asphalt trucks.
✔✔A semiconductor manufacturer recently purchased a copper ore mine to ensure
access to a copper supply for a long period of time.
Which supply chain integration strategy did this manufacturer use? - ✔✔Backward
vertical integration
✔✔A company manufactures ceramic coffee cups. The company employs automated
pottery making machines in creating the ceramic coffee cups.
Which one of the production steps is a bottleneck? - ✔✔Firing the coffee cups in a kiln
✔✔A folding chair manufacturer continues to make the same five chairs it has made for
the past 15 years. It has worked to minimize inventory throughout the supply chain by
sharing information with component suppliers and continuous improvement.
Which supply chain integration strategy is the chair manufacturer using? - ✔✔Lean
supply chain
✔✔An electric company wants to increase service reliability by building new high-
voltage wiring. Because service improves for other electric companies on the same grid,
the company partners with other companies to plan routes and finance construction.
Which supply chain integration strategy is the electric company using? - ✔✔Strategic
alliance
✔✔An aircraft manufacturer has many highly complex subassemblies such as seats,
cockpit, engines, and landing gear. It works with other manufacturers to design and
build these subassemblies while doing project management and final assembly
themselves.
Which supply chain integration strategy is the aircraft manufacturer using? -
✔✔Outsourcing
