MBA 6205 Supply Chain - Chapter 1 & 2
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Efforts to align goals,
shares resources, and collaborate across company boundaries are the
essence of supply chain management.
SCM Goal - - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔SCM allows a company to do a few things
very well for which it has unique skills. Build a corporate "team" consisting
of suppliers, finished goods producers, service providers, and/or retailers.
Focal Firm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The company that is depicting the
relationships among its suppliers and customers
Supply Chain Flow - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Purchased goods and services flow
from upstream suppliers, through the focal firm, to downstream customers.
However, information flows in both directions as supply chain members
plan and coordinate their efforts.
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, Value Chain - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Interconnected nature of internal functions
that has responsibility for making decision that will determine how much
value is created
Just-in-case inventory (Safety Stock) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Kept on hand to
compensate for poor information sharing and possible transportation delays
Bullwhip Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Says that demand variations are likely to
be exaggerated as decisions are made up the chain. The end result is that
small changes in retail-level demand get magnified as they ripple through
the supply chain like a bullwhip
Internal process integration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The goal is to increase
collaboration among the company's functional groups
Backward process integration with valued first-tier suppliers - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Leading companies are extending this form of integration to second-tier
suppliers (their suppliers' suppliers)
Forward process integration with valued first-tier customers - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔To date, few companies have targeted integration with their customers'
customers
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Efforts to align goals,
shares resources, and collaborate across company boundaries are the
essence of supply chain management.
SCM Goal - - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔SCM allows a company to do a few things
very well for which it has unique skills. Build a corporate "team" consisting
of suppliers, finished goods producers, service providers, and/or retailers.
Focal Firm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The company that is depicting the
relationships among its suppliers and customers
Supply Chain Flow - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Purchased goods and services flow
from upstream suppliers, through the focal firm, to downstream customers.
However, information flows in both directions as supply chain members
plan and coordinate their efforts.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Value Chain - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Interconnected nature of internal functions
that has responsibility for making decision that will determine how much
value is created
Just-in-case inventory (Safety Stock) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Kept on hand to
compensate for poor information sharing and possible transportation delays
Bullwhip Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Says that demand variations are likely to
be exaggerated as decisions are made up the chain. The end result is that
small changes in retail-level demand get magnified as they ripple through
the supply chain like a bullwhip
Internal process integration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The goal is to increase
collaboration among the company's functional groups
Backward process integration with valued first-tier suppliers - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Leading companies are extending this form of integration to second-tier
suppliers (their suppliers' suppliers)
Forward process integration with valued first-tier customers - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔To date, few companies have targeted integration with their customers'
customers
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