QDM Final 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Corresponding Answers with Surety
of 100% Pass Mark
A supply chain ends with - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a satisfied customer
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.
An increased sales effort may help a firm reach its profit goals more easily
than would effective cost cutting.
B.
The objective of supply chain management is to coordinate activities within
the supply chain to maximize the supply chain's competitive advantage and
benefits to the ultimate consumer.
C.
Supply chain management describes the coordination of all supply chain
activities, starting with raw materials, and ending with a satisfied customer.
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,D.
A supply chain includes suppliers; manufacturers and/or service providers;
and distributors, wholesalers, and/or retailers who deliver the product
and/or service to the final customer. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A.
An increased sales effort may help a firm reach its profit goals more easily
than would effective cost cutting.
Prior to embarking on supply chain design, operations managers must first
consider - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"make-or-buy" and outsourcing decisions
What is transferring a firm's activities that have traditionally been internal to
external suppliers? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔outsourcing
The advantage of having few suppliers is to - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔form a long-
term relationship
The advantage of having many potential suppliers is their willingness to -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔offer lower prices in the short term
What is developing the ability to produce goods or services previously
purchased or actually buying a supplier or a distributor? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔vertical integration
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, Which of the following strategies is part collaboration, part purchasing from
few suppliers, and part vertical integration? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔keiretsu
networks
Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the bullwhip
effect?
A.
Bullwhip fluctuations in the supply chain increase the costs associated with
inventory, transportation, shipping and receiving.
B.
Inaccurate information results in distortions and fluctuations, causing what
is known as the bullwhip effect.
C.
Bullwhip fluctuations in the supply chain decrease customer service and
profitability.
D.
The bullwhip effect occurs as order are relayed from retails, to distributors,
to wholesalers, to manufacturers, with fluctuations decreasing at each step
in the sequence. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔D.
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and Corresponding Answers with Surety
of 100% Pass Mark
A supply chain ends with - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a satisfied customer
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.
An increased sales effort may help a firm reach its profit goals more easily
than would effective cost cutting.
B.
The objective of supply chain management is to coordinate activities within
the supply chain to maximize the supply chain's competitive advantage and
benefits to the ultimate consumer.
C.
Supply chain management describes the coordination of all supply chain
activities, starting with raw materials, and ending with a satisfied customer.
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,D.
A supply chain includes suppliers; manufacturers and/or service providers;
and distributors, wholesalers, and/or retailers who deliver the product
and/or service to the final customer. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A.
An increased sales effort may help a firm reach its profit goals more easily
than would effective cost cutting.
Prior to embarking on supply chain design, operations managers must first
consider - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"make-or-buy" and outsourcing decisions
What is transferring a firm's activities that have traditionally been internal to
external suppliers? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔outsourcing
The advantage of having few suppliers is to - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔form a long-
term relationship
The advantage of having many potential suppliers is their willingness to -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔offer lower prices in the short term
What is developing the ability to produce goods or services previously
purchased or actually buying a supplier or a distributor? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔vertical integration
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, Which of the following strategies is part collaboration, part purchasing from
few suppliers, and part vertical integration? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔keiretsu
networks
Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the bullwhip
effect?
A.
Bullwhip fluctuations in the supply chain increase the costs associated with
inventory, transportation, shipping and receiving.
B.
Inaccurate information results in distortions and fluctuations, causing what
is known as the bullwhip effect.
C.
Bullwhip fluctuations in the supply chain decrease customer service and
profitability.
D.
The bullwhip effect occurs as order are relayed from retails, to distributors,
to wholesalers, to manufacturers, with fluctuations decreasing at each step
in the sequence. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔D.
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