QUESTIONS & VERIFIED COMPLETE ANSWERS
1. For the remanufacturing process to work,
Design
companies must take the remanufacturing of
products into ac- count beginning in which
phase?
Customer Perception of
2. The most important factor in changing
Value
the supply chain strategy is:
Modular Design
3. A power supply that can be used with different
end cables in countries with different electrical
infrastruc- tures is an example of which of the
following design strategies?
4. Lean supply chains use which of the following actions Reducing
Waste
to achieve their objectives?
5. One of a tire producer's suppliers is a natural 7. What needs
rubber producer whose products are to be
becoming subject to more demand even as phased out
as part of
the product becomes more rare. Another of
an
their suppliers is a tire recycler, who
end-of-sales
provides the tire producer with old tires.
plan from a
Which of the following collaborative
material
intensities would be appropri- ate for these
requirement
partners?
s plan- ning
6. If an organization's executives say they perspectiv
want to im- prove customer service from its e?
current level of 95% to 100%, as measured
by number of stockouts, the supply chain
manager should:
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Partnership or higher for the natural rubber pro- ducer; buy on the market Explain that this level
for the tire recycler would be prohibitively
ex- pensive.
Safety stocks and
butters
8.
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An appropriate use of an advanced planning Identifying constraints within a
and scheduling (APS) system is: facility.
9. Which of the following performance measures Percentage of on-time de-
would be expected to increase with a successful liveries
sales and operations planning (S&OP)
implementation?
10. A supply chain manager plans to increase the number Reduction of
delivery time and geographic locations of warehouses. Which of
the to retail outlets following changes would be the most likely
overall
benefit to the supply chain?
11. Using primarily a pull system in the Sensitivity to demands
distribution net- work offers which of the of the final customer
following benefits to the supply chain as a
whole?
Stage 3: Integrated
12. What is the minimum level of enterprise enter-
evolution in
which a firm might use a logistics supplier to
integrate prise with external members and also
internally combine warehousing and
transportation activities to optimize cost versus
customer service?
13. Which of the following parts of a transportation man- Routing
agement system (TMS) would a manager use to
opti- mize and select carriers for the
movement of a con- tainer from a container
ship to a railcar and finally to a truck?
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14. Which of the following categories of cost Spoilage
would a re- tailer typically include in the cost
of carrying invento- ry?
15. Reduce variability.