MBA 6205 - Supply Chain - Chapter 6 & 7
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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How has SCM found it place among the hot strategic issues of the day? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1.) Meet the needs of demanding customers worldwide.
2.) Build unique competencies to fend off fierce rivals
3.) Span the globe to acquire the best resources, and
4.) Do all of these efficiently.
The new environment dictate two rules - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.) Everything
happens faster,
2.) Anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone
else, somewhere.
Two objectives that led the decision to vertically integrate - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1.) The desire to reduce costs and
2.) The desire to increase control
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,The theoretical benefits of vertical integration almost never emerged. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1. Decreased competitiveness was attributed to the vertical
integration strategies undertaken to improve performance.
2. Diluted managerial focus
3. Increased bureaucracy
4. Inertia increased costs and decreased control.
Relationship integration via collaborative buyer - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Supplier
alliance was born
Environmental scanning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The acquisition and use of
information about events, trends, and relationships in an organization's
internal and external environments. Scanning can be passive or active,.
Scanning becomes a primary mode of organizational learning. Proactive
scanner use insight gained to avoid surprises, identify opportunities and
threats, and improve both tactical and strategic decision making.
Scanning systems pursue the following objectives: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Detect important cultural, economic, legal, political, social, and
technological events and trends.
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, 2. Help managers accurately and objectively understand the company's
strengths and weaknesses.
3. Identify and define potential opportunities and threats implied by
identified events and trends
4. Provide a common and correct perception for tactical and strategic
planning.
5. Promote an adaptable, forward-looking mind-set among managers and
employees.
A critical step in the analysis is to organize the findings in a way that
communicates a compelling story - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔For this reason, SWOT
(strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis often
accompanies scanning efforts.q
Issue - Competitive Pressure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Must reduce costs
relentlessly
- Must seek innovation and non-imitable products / processes
- Must create switching costs via relationship
Issue - Corporate Social Responsibility - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Must understand
how customers define "good" or ethical business practice
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| 100% Pass
How has SCM found it place among the hot strategic issues of the day? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1.) Meet the needs of demanding customers worldwide.
2.) Build unique competencies to fend off fierce rivals
3.) Span the globe to acquire the best resources, and
4.) Do all of these efficiently.
The new environment dictate two rules - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.) Everything
happens faster,
2.) Anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone
else, somewhere.
Two objectives that led the decision to vertically integrate - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1.) The desire to reduce costs and
2.) The desire to increase control
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,The theoretical benefits of vertical integration almost never emerged. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1. Decreased competitiveness was attributed to the vertical
integration strategies undertaken to improve performance.
2. Diluted managerial focus
3. Increased bureaucracy
4. Inertia increased costs and decreased control.
Relationship integration via collaborative buyer - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Supplier
alliance was born
Environmental scanning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The acquisition and use of
information about events, trends, and relationships in an organization's
internal and external environments. Scanning can be passive or active,.
Scanning becomes a primary mode of organizational learning. Proactive
scanner use insight gained to avoid surprises, identify opportunities and
threats, and improve both tactical and strategic decision making.
Scanning systems pursue the following objectives: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Detect important cultural, economic, legal, political, social, and
technological events and trends.
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, 2. Help managers accurately and objectively understand the company's
strengths and weaknesses.
3. Identify and define potential opportunities and threats implied by
identified events and trends
4. Provide a common and correct perception for tactical and strategic
planning.
5. Promote an adaptable, forward-looking mind-set among managers and
employees.
A critical step in the analysis is to organize the findings in a way that
communicates a compelling story - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔For this reason, SWOT
(strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis often
accompanies scanning efforts.q
Issue - Competitive Pressure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Must reduce costs
relentlessly
- Must seek innovation and non-imitable products / processes
- Must create switching costs via relationship
Issue - Corporate Social Responsibility - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Must understand
how customers define "good" or ethical business practice
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