CSCP

CSCP practice questions, page 32 of 37, with answer review and explanations.

Question 156

A pattern of increased shipments from manufacturing plants to a central warehouse at month-end and quarter-end typically would cause which of the following situations in a central warehouse?

  1. Fluctuation in required labor resources
  2. Decreased use of storage capacity
  3. Decreased transportation costs
  4. Increased outbound shipments

Question 157

The use of standardized components typically results in:

  1. increased planning and control efforts to avoid shortages.
  2. fewer inventory items and inventory levels.
  3. more items, larger bills of material (BOMS), and increased material requirements planning (MRP) run time.
  4. smaller bills of materials, fewer routings, and fewer manufacturing orders.

Question 158

An organization is striving to improve the transfer of multiple levels of data about products and services to trading partners in the supply chain network. Which of the following solutions is most appropriate?

  1. Business analytics
  2. Electronic commerce
  3. Enterprise resources planning (ERP)
  4. Advanced planning and scheduling (APS)

Question 159

The process of continuous improvement can be defined best as a continuous effort to:

  1. concurrently improve performance on several measures through incremental improvements.
  2. eliminate root causes of waste through incremental improvements.
  3. eliminate root causes of problems through radical changes.
  4. reduce direct and indirect costs through incremental changes.

Question 160

A retailer that imports furniture from several manufactures in low-wage countries wants to reduce variability in quality. The retailer has proposed merging with one of the manufacturers and giving it sole responsibility for one product family. The proposed merger is an example of:

  1. parallel integration.
  2. internal integration.
  3. horizontal integration.
  4. vertical integration.