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Review 165 LEAD practice questions with answer explanations and community insights.

Question 1

A manufacturing company receives notice from a supplier that it will not be able to make a scheduled delivery. The delivery is critical to the buying firm’s production of a key product. The supply manager calls a meeting with team members from production, sales, legal, and other areas to discuss the situation. Which of the following is the BEST approach for the team to take during this meeting?

  1. Determine whether team members have any contacts with alternate suppliers
  2. Assess the impact of the situation on each of the functions
  3. Brainstorm on ways to maintain the production schedule
  4. Identify ways to delay upcoming demand for the product

Question 2

A firm specifies that any purchase over $2,500 requires management approval and any purchase over $10,000 requires procurement review. A buyer conducts five separate transactions for the same product without review at $2,499 a piece over a two week period. The buyer’s actions constitute which of the following types of fraud?

  1. Unnecessary purchases
  2. Change-order abuse
  3. Rigged specifications
  4. Split purchases

Question 3

A supply manager is asked to identify suppliers for a new procurement system. Which of the following is the BEST source of information for researching this project?

  1. CAPS Research
  2. Gartner magic quadrant report
  3. The company’s business intelligence system
  4. ISM annual conference

Question 4

An order is placed with a supplier. While there is no formal acknowledgement of the details of the order, there is a confirmation of receipt, and the supplier begins the work. When the buying firm receives the invoice, the price on the invoice is less than the price established on the order. In this situation, which of the following would be the BEST course of action for the buying firm to take?

  1. Accept the invoiced price as is, since there was no formal acknowledgement of price on the original order
  2. Note the difference to account for any future invoices that may be billed above the price on the order
  3. Bring the discrepancy to the attention of the supplier, to allow it to address the price variance
  4. Adjust the pricing within the supply management system, so that future orders match the invoiced price

Question 5

Which of the following provides a complete and accurate integrated master record across all business sites and functions?

  1. MRP
  2. e-Auction
  3. ERP
  4. POS
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