SCMN 3730 LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
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✔✔-Include minority suppliers in all RFQs without exception
-Set forth management's commitment on this subject.
-Evaluate the performance potential of small and disadvantaged suppliers to identify
those qualifying for supplier assistance.
-invite small and disadvantaged suppliers to bid on purchase contracts.
-Establish a minimum percentage of business to award to qualified small and dis-
advantaged suppliers.
-Outline a training program to educate buyers regarding the needs of the small and
disadvantaged suppliers. - ✔✔What are some steps that a policy in support of minority
suppliers might include?
✔✔Corporate Social Responsibility - ✔✔a business's concern for society's welfare
✔✔Drafted after supplier evaluation and selection is completed
Legally-binding document (i.e., contract)
Carefully define terms and conditions
Standard legal language (i.e., "boilerplate")
Offer and acceptance
Visibility throughout company
Accounting (accounts payable)Requisitioner or requesting department Receiving Traffic
management Supply management Quality control - ✔✔What are Purchase Orders, and
what departments in addition to Purchasing need visibility to them?
✔✔Accepting bribes or kickbacks
Cronyism
Accepting late bids
Owning a stake in supplier's company
Other behavior not considered part of the "normal" course of doing business - ✔✔What
are some examples of irregular business dealings?
✔✔People coming together work together on a strategy or solve a problem
Different people bringing different points of view to table
Team members often located all over the globe
Need to create common understanding of end goal or purpose - ✔✔What are elements
of supply integration?
✔✔Process by which two or more parties adopt a high level of purposeful cooperation
to maintain trading relationship over time - ✔✔What is meant by collaboration?
, ✔✔One or limited number of suppliers for each purchased item or family of items
Win-win approach to reward sharing
Joint efforts to improve supplier performance
Joint efforts to resolve disputes - ✔✔What are the characteristics of a collaborative
buyer-seller relationship?
✔✔Reduced time to complete tasks
Increased innovation
Joint ownership of decisions (BUY-IN)
Enhanced communication among functions or organizations
Realizing synergies by combining individuals and functions
Better identification and resolution of problems - ✔✔Advantages of CFT?
✔✔Use does not guarantee success
Team process loss
Negative effects on individual members
Poor team decisions
Groupthink
Artificial consensus - ✔✔Disadvantages of CFT?
✔✔Facing a complex or large-scale business decision
CFT is likely to make better quality decision
Assignment directly affects firm's competitive position
No single function has sufficient resources to solve problem - ✔✔When do you use a
CFT?
✔✔Authorizing creation of sourcing team
Selecting team's task(s)
Establishing broad objectives
Selecting team leadership
Requiring regular updates or at key milestones
Conducting performance reviews - ✔✔Subtle control by management?
✔✔White Box Design - ✔✔Supplier is given blueprints and told to make product from
them
✔✔Gray Box Design - ✔✔Supplier's engineers work cooperatively with buyer's
engineers in joint design
✔✔Black Box Design - ✔✔Suppliers are provided functional specifications and create
design
✔✔Share savings equitably, often 50-50
Focus on cost improvement, not simply cutting supplier margins
SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
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✔✔-Include minority suppliers in all RFQs without exception
-Set forth management's commitment on this subject.
-Evaluate the performance potential of small and disadvantaged suppliers to identify
those qualifying for supplier assistance.
-invite small and disadvantaged suppliers to bid on purchase contracts.
-Establish a minimum percentage of business to award to qualified small and dis-
advantaged suppliers.
-Outline a training program to educate buyers regarding the needs of the small and
disadvantaged suppliers. - ✔✔What are some steps that a policy in support of minority
suppliers might include?
✔✔Corporate Social Responsibility - ✔✔a business's concern for society's welfare
✔✔Drafted after supplier evaluation and selection is completed
Legally-binding document (i.e., contract)
Carefully define terms and conditions
Standard legal language (i.e., "boilerplate")
Offer and acceptance
Visibility throughout company
Accounting (accounts payable)Requisitioner or requesting department Receiving Traffic
management Supply management Quality control - ✔✔What are Purchase Orders, and
what departments in addition to Purchasing need visibility to them?
✔✔Accepting bribes or kickbacks
Cronyism
Accepting late bids
Owning a stake in supplier's company
Other behavior not considered part of the "normal" course of doing business - ✔✔What
are some examples of irregular business dealings?
✔✔People coming together work together on a strategy or solve a problem
Different people bringing different points of view to table
Team members often located all over the globe
Need to create common understanding of end goal or purpose - ✔✔What are elements
of supply integration?
✔✔Process by which two or more parties adopt a high level of purposeful cooperation
to maintain trading relationship over time - ✔✔What is meant by collaboration?
, ✔✔One or limited number of suppliers for each purchased item or family of items
Win-win approach to reward sharing
Joint efforts to improve supplier performance
Joint efforts to resolve disputes - ✔✔What are the characteristics of a collaborative
buyer-seller relationship?
✔✔Reduced time to complete tasks
Increased innovation
Joint ownership of decisions (BUY-IN)
Enhanced communication among functions or organizations
Realizing synergies by combining individuals and functions
Better identification and resolution of problems - ✔✔Advantages of CFT?
✔✔Use does not guarantee success
Team process loss
Negative effects on individual members
Poor team decisions
Groupthink
Artificial consensus - ✔✔Disadvantages of CFT?
✔✔Facing a complex or large-scale business decision
CFT is likely to make better quality decision
Assignment directly affects firm's competitive position
No single function has sufficient resources to solve problem - ✔✔When do you use a
CFT?
✔✔Authorizing creation of sourcing team
Selecting team's task(s)
Establishing broad objectives
Selecting team leadership
Requiring regular updates or at key milestones
Conducting performance reviews - ✔✔Subtle control by management?
✔✔White Box Design - ✔✔Supplier is given blueprints and told to make product from
them
✔✔Gray Box Design - ✔✔Supplier's engineers work cooperatively with buyer's
engineers in joint design
✔✔Black Box Design - ✔✔Suppliers are provided functional specifications and create
design
✔✔Share savings equitably, often 50-50
Focus on cost improvement, not simply cutting supplier margins
