BUAD 331 Exam 2 study guide Questions and Answers
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Question 1.
What type of warehouse has the advantage of minimizing labor disputes, facilitating
economics of scale
and letting experts run the warehouse?
Correct Answer: Public
Question 2.
What mode of transportation is the best choice for shipping small, high value, time
sensitive products?
Correct Answer: Air
Question 3.
Best Buy has a warehouse containing TVs, video games consuls, and movies. The
TVs sell slowly, the
consuls sell periodically, and the moves sell quickly period. How should Best Buy
arrange its
warehouse?
Correct Answer: TVs in the back, consuls in the middle, movies in the front.
Question 4.
_____+______= Rate Bargaining Power when Negotiating Rates
Correct Answer: Volume + Consistency
Question 5.
Which term below describes the process of preassigning incoming replenishment
shipments to actual
demand orders, so that as soon as a product arrives in the facility it is already
assigned to an order?
Correct Answer: Cross docking
Question 6.
Transportation carries will give you better rates if you give them shipments that
provide revenue in ____
period.
Correct Answer: both directions
Question 7.
______ is the product placement concept that involves assigning SKUs to an
appropriate storage or
picking location by accounting for factors that influence the movement, staging,
and storage of the SKU
, in the warehouse, including volume and variability of the volume.
Correct Answer: Product Profiling
Question 8.
What emerging trend will alleviate the need to carry certain inventory such as spare
automotive or
aircraft parts?
Correct Answer: Additive Manufacturing also known as 3-D printing
Question 9.
Crowded urban markets require innovative approaches for delivery in the "Last
Mile" logistics initiative.
One such solution would be
Correct Answer: drones
Question 10.
Samsung wants to transport a load of 55 in HD TVs from California to San
Fransisco which method of
transportation should Samsung use?
Correct Answer: Truck
Question 11.
Which of these is not a key component of transportation management?
Correct Answer: process appropriate information to avoid regulatory approval
Question 12.
When calculating the theoretical capacity of a manufacturing facility, operating
times for holiday and
weekends is subtracted.
Correct Answer: True
Question 13.
Which of the following maintenance strategies was no discussed?
Correct Answer: Probabilistic
Question 14.
A shared understanding of values and priorities is critical to run a successful
manufacturing operation.
which one of these categories will change based on the annual corporate strategy?
Correct Answer: priorities
Verified Solutions Latest Update
Question 1.
What type of warehouse has the advantage of minimizing labor disputes, facilitating
economics of scale
and letting experts run the warehouse?
Correct Answer: Public
Question 2.
What mode of transportation is the best choice for shipping small, high value, time
sensitive products?
Correct Answer: Air
Question 3.
Best Buy has a warehouse containing TVs, video games consuls, and movies. The
TVs sell slowly, the
consuls sell periodically, and the moves sell quickly period. How should Best Buy
arrange its
warehouse?
Correct Answer: TVs in the back, consuls in the middle, movies in the front.
Question 4.
_____+______= Rate Bargaining Power when Negotiating Rates
Correct Answer: Volume + Consistency
Question 5.
Which term below describes the process of preassigning incoming replenishment
shipments to actual
demand orders, so that as soon as a product arrives in the facility it is already
assigned to an order?
Correct Answer: Cross docking
Question 6.
Transportation carries will give you better rates if you give them shipments that
provide revenue in ____
period.
Correct Answer: both directions
Question 7.
______ is the product placement concept that involves assigning SKUs to an
appropriate storage or
picking location by accounting for factors that influence the movement, staging,
and storage of the SKU
, in the warehouse, including volume and variability of the volume.
Correct Answer: Product Profiling
Question 8.
What emerging trend will alleviate the need to carry certain inventory such as spare
automotive or
aircraft parts?
Correct Answer: Additive Manufacturing also known as 3-D printing
Question 9.
Crowded urban markets require innovative approaches for delivery in the "Last
Mile" logistics initiative.
One such solution would be
Correct Answer: drones
Question 10.
Samsung wants to transport a load of 55 in HD TVs from California to San
Fransisco which method of
transportation should Samsung use?
Correct Answer: Truck
Question 11.
Which of these is not a key component of transportation management?
Correct Answer: process appropriate information to avoid regulatory approval
Question 12.
When calculating the theoretical capacity of a manufacturing facility, operating
times for holiday and
weekends is subtracted.
Correct Answer: True
Question 13.
Which of the following maintenance strategies was no discussed?
Correct Answer: Probabilistic
Question 14.
A shared understanding of values and priorities is critical to run a successful
manufacturing operation.
which one of these categories will change based on the annual corporate strategy?
Correct Answer: priorities
