Exam 14: Supply Chain Integration

________ brings product engineers,process engineers,marketers,buyers,information specialists,quality specialists and suppliers together to work jointly to design a product and all its processes.

One electronics manufacturer manages risk by making agreements with factories well in advance to guarantee productive capacity at an agreed price.If their product is popular,then they can use that productive capacity during an otherwise busy season at a lower cost.Such an agreement could best be described as:

Early supplier involvement is a program that allows suppliers to fill orders prior to the customer placing them.

The standard for supply chain security management is ________.

A common disruption of the supply chain resulting from internal causes is order batching.

Which of the following is NOT a stage in the New Service / Product Development Process?

The bullwhip effect says that in any supply chain,the ordering patterns experience increasing variance as you move closer to the end customer.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage the Internet provides for a firm's order placement process?

What are some ways that supply chain partners can collaborate on product designs? How do these ways differ?

The competitive orientation to supplier relations is that the buyer and supplier are partners.

Using rail to move large quantities of goods is relatively cheap,but transit times are long and often variable.

Suppliers can gain power from a number of sources in the buyer / supplier relationship.When a buyer can threaten to cancel future business unless the supplier adheres to the buyer's demands,this is called a ________ source of power.

One source of disruption caused by the internal supply chain is:

What is the meaning of the acronym 3PL?

A supply chain can be thought of as a river that flows from raw material suppliers to consumers.

Table 14.1 Alison's Accessories is a high volume worldwide fashion house with outlets in 65 countries.Sadly,space does not permit an exhaustive list but once the test is over,check out their website.Kalil,the supply chain manager is conducting her usual thorough analysis of her final four candidates for supplier and has developed the following tables of pertinent costs and other shipping metrics.Regardless of supplier,Alison's Accessories will operate 220 days per year and has forecast annual demand of 250,000 units.Kalil has obtained quotes for three different shipment sizes (Freight Costs table).All costs are in US Dollars. Unit costs Freight Costs Other Costs -Use Table 14.1 to answer the question.Kalil believes that Alison's would benefit most from smaller shipments of accessories from their chosen supplier.Which supplier would result in the lowest total cost using this criterion?

Jackson Sheds has four different warehouse configurations under study,ranging from four warehouses to seven warehouses (only integer values).Each warehouse has a capacity of 400 units and costs $200 to maintain over the course of a year.Demand can range from 1000 units per year up to 2000 units in increments of 250 units.If the system warehouse capacity is sufficient to handle the year's demand,then the per unit cost is $2 per unit,but if the warehouse capacity is insufficient,the per unit cost for each unit in excess of system capacity is $5 per unit.The likelihood for each possible demand is shown in the table. Which warehouse configuration is BEST for Jackson Sheds?

Once certified,a supplier can be used by the purchasing department without the purchaser having to make background checks.

The most used form of e-purchasing today is electronic data interchange.

What are the elements of the SCOR model?