APICS CSCP MAIN EXAMINATION SET 2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔multicountry strategy - ✔✔a strategy in which each country market is self-contained.
Customers have uni8que product expectations that are addressed by local product
capabilities
✔✔inventory optimization software - ✔✔a computer application that can find optimal
inventory strategies and policies related to customer service and return on investment
over several echelons of a supply chain
✔✔radio frequency identification (RFID) - ✔✔a system using electronic tags to store
data about items. accessing data is accomplished through a specific radio frequency
and does not require close proximity or line-of-site access
✔✔enterprise resource planning (ERP) - ✔✔framework for organizing, defining, and
standardizing the business processes necessary to effectively plan and control an
organization so that the organization can use its internal knowledge to seek external
advantage
✔✔e-commerce - ✔✔the use of telecommunication & computer tech to conduct
business via electronic transfer of data and documents
✔✔design for environment - ✔✔considering health, safety, and environmental aspects
of a product during the design and development phase
✔✔business-to-business commerce - ✔✔business conducted over the internet between
businesses
✔✔design for remanufacture - ✔✔products developed in a manner that allows
components to be used in other products. associated with green manufacturing
✔✔order winners - ✔✔those competitive characteristics that cause a firm's customers to
choose that firm's goods and services over those of its competitors
✔✔capable-to-promise - ✔✔the process of committing orders against available capacity
as well as inventory. employs a finite scheduling model of the manufacturing system to
determine when an order can be delivered
✔✔web services - ✔✔a common internet or intranet framework that enables the
movement of data from one supply chain application to another without the requirement
for a direct connection between the two applications and without regard for the
underlying operating systems
, ✔✔electronic document - ✔✔the electronic representation of a document that can be
printed
✔✔design for six sigma - ✔✔an approach to designing products and processes that
attempts to ensure that the firm can produce products/services that meet six sigma
quality levels (3.4 defects/million)
✔✔economic value added - ✔✔in managerial accounting, the net operating profit
earned above the cost of capital for a profit center
✔✔quality function deployment - ✔✔a methodology designed to ensure that all the
major requirements of the customer are identified and subsequently met or exceeded
through the resulting product design process and the design and operation of the
supporting production management system
✔✔order qualifiers - ✔✔those competitive characteristics that a firm must exhibit to be a
viable competitor in the marketplace
✔✔product life cycle management - ✔✔the process of facilitating the development, use,
and support of products that customers want and need
✔✔available-to-promise - ✔✔1. in operations, the uncommitted portion of a company's
inventory and planned production maintained in the master schedule to support
customer order promising
✔✔modular system - ✔✔a system architecture design in which related tasks are
grouped in self-contained packages. each module of tasks performs all of the tasks
related to a specific function
✔✔passive tag - ✔✔an RFID tag that doesn't send out data and isn't self-powered
✔✔universality - ✔✔the strategy of designing a product initially intended for one market
in such a way that it can also be sold in other markets
a form of standardization
✔✔glocalization - ✔✔a form of postponement where a product or service is developed
for distribution globally but is modified to meet the needs of the local market
✔✔modular design strategy - ✔✔The strategy of planning and designing products so
that
components or subassemblies can be used in current and future products or
subassemblies can be used in current and future products or assembled to produce
multiple configurations of a product.
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔multicountry strategy - ✔✔a strategy in which each country market is self-contained.
Customers have uni8que product expectations that are addressed by local product
capabilities
✔✔inventory optimization software - ✔✔a computer application that can find optimal
inventory strategies and policies related to customer service and return on investment
over several echelons of a supply chain
✔✔radio frequency identification (RFID) - ✔✔a system using electronic tags to store
data about items. accessing data is accomplished through a specific radio frequency
and does not require close proximity or line-of-site access
✔✔enterprise resource planning (ERP) - ✔✔framework for organizing, defining, and
standardizing the business processes necessary to effectively plan and control an
organization so that the organization can use its internal knowledge to seek external
advantage
✔✔e-commerce - ✔✔the use of telecommunication & computer tech to conduct
business via electronic transfer of data and documents
✔✔design for environment - ✔✔considering health, safety, and environmental aspects
of a product during the design and development phase
✔✔business-to-business commerce - ✔✔business conducted over the internet between
businesses
✔✔design for remanufacture - ✔✔products developed in a manner that allows
components to be used in other products. associated with green manufacturing
✔✔order winners - ✔✔those competitive characteristics that cause a firm's customers to
choose that firm's goods and services over those of its competitors
✔✔capable-to-promise - ✔✔the process of committing orders against available capacity
as well as inventory. employs a finite scheduling model of the manufacturing system to
determine when an order can be delivered
✔✔web services - ✔✔a common internet or intranet framework that enables the
movement of data from one supply chain application to another without the requirement
for a direct connection between the two applications and without regard for the
underlying operating systems
, ✔✔electronic document - ✔✔the electronic representation of a document that can be
printed
✔✔design for six sigma - ✔✔an approach to designing products and processes that
attempts to ensure that the firm can produce products/services that meet six sigma
quality levels (3.4 defects/million)
✔✔economic value added - ✔✔in managerial accounting, the net operating profit
earned above the cost of capital for a profit center
✔✔quality function deployment - ✔✔a methodology designed to ensure that all the
major requirements of the customer are identified and subsequently met or exceeded
through the resulting product design process and the design and operation of the
supporting production management system
✔✔order qualifiers - ✔✔those competitive characteristics that a firm must exhibit to be a
viable competitor in the marketplace
✔✔product life cycle management - ✔✔the process of facilitating the development, use,
and support of products that customers want and need
✔✔available-to-promise - ✔✔1. in operations, the uncommitted portion of a company's
inventory and planned production maintained in the master schedule to support
customer order promising
✔✔modular system - ✔✔a system architecture design in which related tasks are
grouped in self-contained packages. each module of tasks performs all of the tasks
related to a specific function
✔✔passive tag - ✔✔an RFID tag that doesn't send out data and isn't self-powered
✔✔universality - ✔✔the strategy of designing a product initially intended for one market
in such a way that it can also be sold in other markets
a form of standardization
✔✔glocalization - ✔✔a form of postponement where a product or service is developed
for distribution globally but is modified to meet the needs of the local market
✔✔modular design strategy - ✔✔The strategy of planning and designing products so
that
components or subassemblies can be used in current and future products or
subassemblies can be used in current and future products or assembled to produce
multiple configurations of a product.
