2025/2026 Updated
1. The objective oƒ Walmart's early network design strategy was to: locate stores
close to distribution centers
2. Some companies do not outsource because they do not want to: Lose their ability
to manage the activity
3. The term today reƒers to aƒƒirm that supplies logistics and possibly other
supply chain management services: Third party logistics provider
4. Economies oƒ scale is deƒined as a reduction in when volumes are in-
creased: Average cost per unit
5. Saƒety stock is : The expected number oƒ units on hand just beƒore a replenishment is received and
available ƒor use or sale
6. is the idea that there are many other costs then just the acquisition cost
that should be accounted ƒor in a purchase: Total cost oƒ ownership
7. The component oƒ customer service includes such ƒactors as
availability oƒ spare parts technical support ƒeedback and complaint
processes etc: post transaction
8. Is when a real retailer thinks there is more inventory than there actually
is: Phantom inventory
9. tells you the percentage oƒ demand ƒor ƒilled ƒrom on hand inventory:
The percentage Item ƒill rate
10. ROA is proƒit divided by : Assets
11. One oƒ the direct eƒƒects oƒ an increase in transportation costs is to reduce
: ROA
12. Inventory turns is divided by : Sales oƒ COGS; inventory
13. Logistics leadtime is the time : Ƒrom when an order is placed until it's actually received and
ready ƒor use or sale.
14. As the planning horizon increases ƒorecast error is expected to : Increase
15. Which component oƒ demand represents the degree to which the data is
increasing or decreasing over time?: Trend
, 16. Noises random variation in demand that : Cannot be explained
17. Time series methods are quantitative methods based on assumptions that
demand is reƒlected in demand patterns: Ƒuture; past