Exam 13: Supply Chain Performance Measurement and Financial Analysis

Channel structure management includes decisions regarding the use of outsourcing, channel inventories, _____, and channel structure.

The equivalent sales increase for supply chain cost saving is found by dividing the cost saving by the organization's profit margin.

Which of the following is NOT an element of Order Management?

An "executive dashboard" is:

Order cycle time (OCT) is another very important logistics service metric. OCT influences product availability, customer inventories, and seller's cash flow and profit.

The focus on performance measurement is a recent event in industry.

A metric could drive inappropriate behavior.

A metric and a measure are the same.

Discuss the metric classification scheme that has been developed by the Supply Chain Council and defined in the Supply Chain Operations and Reference (SCOR) model to measure the performance of Process D1: Deliver Stocked Product.

In the SCOR model there are five major categories of metrics that need to be used to measure the performance of Process D1: reliability, _____, agility, costs, and asset management.

Which of the following is NOT a supply chain decision area regarding ROA improvement?

Gross margin equals:

Earnings before interest and taxes is calculated:

Managers should resist sub-optimization of their particular function unless it benefits the organization as a whole.

Four major categories that provide a useful way to examine logistics and supply chain performance are time, quality, cost, and inventory.

An index combines two or more metrics into a single indicator.