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Which of the following are true statements about supply chains?
Ans✓✓✓Supply chain partners could include home delivery partners.
A company's supply chain includes all the companies involved in the
flow of providing products to customers.
The goal of supply chain management is to integrate all supply chain
activities into a seamless process.
Which of the following are examples of supply chain integration
strategies? Ans✓✓✓Effective use of customer sales data.
Careful selection of supply chain partners.
Increased communication with supply chain partners.
By relying on customer data, a company discontinues products that
aren't in demand before inventories can build up. This is an example of
which benefit of supply chain management? Ans✓✓✓Streamlined
product mix
There are two main types of supply chain integration: _______ and
_______. Ans✓✓✓Internal; external
Which of the following best describes the demand-supply integration
(DSI) philosophy? Ans✓✓✓The company departments charged with
, creating customer demand communicate frequently with company
departments charged with fulfilling demand.
Sharing a basic framework for how companies in the supply chain will
communicate and work together is an example of what level of external
integration? Ans✓✓✓Relationship integration
The creation and maintenance of information systems that connect
managers across firms in the supply chain is an example of what level of
external integration? Ans✓✓✓Technology and planning integration.
Ensuring that firms in the supply chain can manage production with
flexibility and efficiency describes which process of supply chain
management? Ans✓✓✓Manufacturing flow management
Aligning supply and demand throughout the supply chain by anticipating
customer demand and planning production and inventory accordingly
describes which process of supply chain management?
Ans✓✓✓Demand management
Facilitating the joint development and marketing of new offerings
among a group of supply chain partner firms describes which process of
supply chain management? Ans✓✓✓Product development and
commercialization.
Sustainable supply chain management involves the integration and
balancing of _______, _______, and economic thinking into all phases