2022年供应链管理scm练习

1、供应链治理 SCM 练习（英文版）-CAL-FENGHAI-2022YEAR-YICAIJINGBIAN Supply Chain Management Exercise True or False A supply chain in eludes only the orga nizati ons directly involved in supplying comp on ents n eeded for manufacturi ng. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 2. A supply chain consists of all parties i

2、nvolved, directly or indirectly, in fulfilling a customer request. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 3. A supply chain could be more accurately described as a supply network or supply web.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 4. The objective of every supply chain is to maximize the overall value genera

3、ted . Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 5. The objective of every supply chai n is to maximize the value gen erated for the man ufacturi ng comp on ent of the supply chai n. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 6. All supply chain activities within a firm belong to one of three macro processes 一 CRM, ISCM

4、 and SRMAnswer: True Difficulty: Easy 7. There is a close conn ection betwee n the desig n and manageme nt of supply chain flows and the success of a supply chain. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 8. A companys competitive strategy defines the set of customer needs that it seeks to satisfy through its

5、products and services. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 9. The value chain emphasizes the close relationship between all the functional strategies within a company.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 2 10. A companys product development strategy defines the set of customer needs that it seeks to satisfy

6、through its products and services.Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 11. A companys product development strategy specifies the portfolio of new products that it will try to develop .Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 12. A companys supply chain strategy spec Hies how the market will be segmented and how

7、the product will be positioned, priced, and promoted. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 13. A companys supply chain strategy determines the nature of procurement and transportation of materials as well as the manufacture and distribution of the product. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 14. The degree of s

8、upply chain responsiveness should be consistent with the implied uncertainty. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 15. The degree of supply chain responsiveness does not need to be consistent with the implied uncertainty .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 16. The two major types of facilities are distribu

9、tion sites and storage sites. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 17. Inventory is an important supply chain driver because changing inventory policies can dramatically alter the supply chains efficiency and responsiveness.28. Information is potentially the biggest driver of performanee in the supply

10、 chain as it directly affects each of the other drivers .Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 29. The high utilization facility will have no more difficulty responding to demand fluctuations than one with a lot of unused capacity. Answer: True Difficulty: ModerateAnswer: False Difficulty: Easy 20. Stock ke

11、eping unit SKU storage is the warehousing methodology that uses a traditional warehouse to store all of one type of product together. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 21. Warehouse unit storage is the warehousing methodology that uses a traditional warehouse to store all of one type of product toge

12、ther .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 22. Distribut:ion occurs between every pair of stages in the supply chain. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 23. Distribution only occurs between manufacturing and consumers in the supply chain. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 24. Companies in the same ind

13、ustry often select very different distribution networks, because the choice of the distribution network can be used to achieve a variety of supply chain objectives ranging from low cost to high responsiveness.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 25. The main advantage of a distribution network with loc

14、al storage is that it can lower the delivery cost and provide a faster response than other networks .Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 26. When designing supply chain networks, companies must build appropriate flexibility to help counter fluctuations in exchange rates and dema nd across different co

15、untries .Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate27. Inven tory and facility costs increase as the n umber of facilities in a supply chain in crease. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 28. Tran sportatio n costs in crease as the number of facilities is in creased .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 29. When

16、faced with a network design decision, the goal of a manager is to design a network that minimizes the firms costs while satisfying customer needs in terms of dema nd and resp on siveness .Answer: False Difficulty: Hard 30. The supply chain network is designed to maximize total profits, taking into a

17、ccount the expected margin and demand in each market, various logistics and facility costs, and the taxes and tariffs at each location. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 32. Decisions made during the supply chain design phase regarding significant investments in the supply chain, such as the number and

18、size of plants to build, the number of trucks to purchase or lease, and whether to build or lease warehouse space, can not be altered in the short term. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 32. Decisions made during the supply chain design phase regarding significant investments in the supply chain, su

19、ch as the number and size of plants to build, the number of trucks to purchase or lease, and whether to build or lease warehouse space, rarely remain in place for several years .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 33. Decisions made during the supply chain design phase regarding significant investmen

20、ts in the supply chain, such as the number and size of plants to build, the number of trucks to purchase or lease, and whether to build or lease warehouse space, define the boundaries within which the supply chain must compete.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 34. Lon g-term con tracts for both ware

21、housi ng and transportati on requirements will be more effective if the demand and price of warehousing do not change in the future or if the price of warehousing goes up. 5 Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 35. Lon g-term con tracts for both warehousi ng and transportation requireme nts will be more ef

22、fective if either dema nd or the price of warehousing drops in the future .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 36. The present value of future cash flows is found by using a discount factor. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 37. The rate of return k is also referred to as the present value of capital

23、. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 38. A negative NPV for an option indicates that the option will lose money for the supply chain. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 39. The decision with the lowest NPV will provide a supply chain with the highest financial return.Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 40

24、. In reality, demand and prices are highly uncertain and are likely to fluctuate during the life of any supply chain decision.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 42. The goal of aggregate plan ning is to satisfy dema nd in a way that minimizes profit. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 42. Aggregate plann

25、ing is a process by which a company determines levels of capacity, production, subcontracting, inventory, stockouts, and even pricing over a specified time horizon. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 43. Aggregate planning solves problems involving aggregate decisions rather than stock keeping unit S

26、KU level decisions.44. Forecas廿 ng errors are dealt with in aggregate plans using either safety backlog or safety capacit y. Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy6 Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 45. Safety inve ntory is defined as in ventory held to satisfy dema nd that is higher than forecasted .Answer:

27、 True Difficulty: Easy 46. Safety capacity is defi ned as capacity used to satisfy dema nd that is lower tha n forecasted .Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 47. Companies should work with downstream partners to produce forecasts and with upstream partners to determine constraints when doing aggregate p

28、lanning. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 48. The aggregate plan should be viewed primarily as an in-house tool that does not need to be communicated to supply chain partners .Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 49. Given that forecasts are always wrong to some degree, the aggregate plan needs to have some

29、flexibility built into it if it is to be useful. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 50. With supply and dema nd manageme nt decisions being made indepe nden tly, it is easier to coordi nate the supply chai n, thereby in creasing profit .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 51. A firm can vary supply of

30、 product by controlling production capacity and inventory. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 52. A firm that uses flexible work hours from the workforce to manage capacity to better meet dema nd is using a seasonal workforce .53. Offering a promotion during a peak period that has significant forward buy

31、ing creates even more variable dema nd than before the promotio n. Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate7 Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 54. Average inventory decreases if a promotion is run during the peak period and increases if the promotion is run during the off-peak period .Answer: False Difficulty:

32、 Easy 55. Promoting during a peak demand month may decrease overall profitability if a significant fraction of the dema nd increase results from a forward buy. Answer: True Difficulty: Hard 56. As forward buying becomes a smaller fraction of the dema nd increase from a promotion, it is less profitab

33、le to promote during the peak period .Answer: False Difficulty: Hard 57. As the product margi n declines, prom ot:ing duri ng the peak dema nd period becomes less profitable .Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 58. Cycle inventory exists because producing or purchasing in large lots allows a stage of the

34、supply chain to exploit economies of scale and increase cost. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 59. A lot or batch size is the quantity that a stage of the supply chain either produces or purchases at a given time.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 60. Cycle inventory is the physical inventory in th

35、e supply chain due to either production or purchases dema nd by the customer .Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 62.The inventory profile is a plot depicting the level of inventory over time.Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 62. A discount is volume-based if the pricing schedule offers discounts based on

36、 the quantity 8 ordered in a single lot. Answer: False Difficulty: Hard 63. A discount is volume-based if the discount is based on the total quantity purchased over a given period, regardless of the number of lots purchased over that period .Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 64. Pricing schedules with a

37、ll unit quantity discounts encourage retailers to increase the size of their lots, which reduces the average inventory and flow time in a supply chain .Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 65. Safety inve ntory is inve ntory carried for the purpose of satisfyi ng dema nd that exceeds the amount foreca

38、sted for a given period .Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 66. Safety inventory is carried because demand forecasts are accurate and a product shortage may result if the forecast dema nd exceeds the actual dema nd. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 67. Raising the level of safety inventory increase

39、s product availability and thus the margin captured from customer purchases .Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 68. Raising the level of safety inve ntory in creases inve ntory holding costs. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 69. Carrying excessive inventory can help counter demand volatility when new pr

40、oducts come on the market. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 70. The appropriate level of safety inventory is determined by the uncertainty of both demand and supply and the desired level of cycle inventory. 72. As the uncertainty of supply or demand grows, the required level of safety inventories

41、increases.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate9 Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 72. As the desired level of product availability increases, the required level of safety inventory decreases.Answer: False Difficulty: Easy 73. Lead time is the gap between when an order is placed and when it is received.

42、 Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 74. Periodic review policies require more safety inventory than continuous review policies for the same level of product availability. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy 75. When using a continuous review policy, a manager has to account for the uncertainty of demand during

43、 the lead time and the review interval. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy10Multiply Choice 1. Which of the following is not a stage within a typical supply chain. 2. a. Customers b. Retailers c. Wholesalers/Distributors d. Manufacturers e. All of the above are stages within a typical supply chain. Answ

44、er: e Difficulty: Easy 2. Supply chain profitability is a. not correlated to the value gen erated by the various stages of the supply chain. b. the total profit to be shared across all supply chain stages. c. the d if fere nee betwee n the revenue generated from the customer and the overall cost acr

45、oss the supply chain. d. the total reve nue gen erated by the distributor stage of the supply chai n. e. ban d c o nly Answer: e Difficulty: Difficult 3. Successful supply chain management requires which of the following decision phases. a. supply chain strategy/design b. supply chain planning c. su

46、pply chain operation d. all of the above e. a and b only Answer: d Difficulty: Moderate 4. The objective of customer order entry is to a. get the correct orders to customers by the promised due date at the lowest possible cost. b. maintain a record of product receipt and complete payment .c. maximiz

47、e the conversion of customer arrivals to customer orders .d. ensure that orders are quickly and accurately entered and communicated to other affected supply chain processes. G. none of the above Answer: d Difficulty: Easy 5. The push/pull view of the supply chain is useful when considering strategic

48、 decisions relating to supply chain design, because a. it categorizes processes based on whether they are initiated in response to or in anticipation of customer orders .11 b. it specifies the roles and responsibilities of each member of the supply chain. c. it clearly defines the processes involved

49、 and the owners of each process.d. it focuses on processes that are external to the firm .e. it focuses on processes that are internal to the firm .Answer: a Difficulty: Hard 6. Which of the following statements about pull processes is accurate. a. May also be referred to as speculative processes.b.

50、 Execution is initiated in anticipation of customer orders.c. At the time of execution, dema nd must be forecast .d. May also be referred to as reactive processes.e. None of the above are accurate.Answer: d Difficulty: Easy 7. Which of the following statements about push processes is accurate. a May

51、 also be referred to as speculative processes.b. Execution is initiated in response to customer orders.c. At the time of execution, dema nd is known with certaint y. d. May also be referred to as reactive processes.e. None of the above are accurate.Answer: a Difficulty: Easy 8. Supply chain macro pr

52、ocesses include which of the following. a. Customer Relati on ship Management CRM b. Internal Supply Chain Management ISCM c. Supplier Relationship Management SRM d. all of the above e. none of the above Answer: d Difficulty: Easy 9. A companys competitive strategy a. defines the set of customer nee

53、ds that it seeks to satisfy through its products and services.b. specifies the portfolio of new products that it will try to develop .c. specifies how the market will be segmented and how the product will be positioned, priced, and promoted.d. determines the nature of procurement and transportation

54、of materials as well as manufacture and distribution of the product .e. determines how it will obtain and maintain the appropriate set of skills and abilities to meet customer needs.12 A companys supply chain strategy a. defines the set of customer needs that it seeks to satisfy through its products

55、 and services.b. spec讦 ies the portfolio of new products that it will try to develop .c. spec讦ies how the market will be segmented and how the product will be positioned, priced, and promoted.d. determines the nature of procurement and transportation of materials as well as manufacture and distribut

56、ion of the product .e. determines how it will obtain and maintain the appropriate set of skills and abilities to meet customer needs.Answer: d Difficulty: Easy 12. A supply chain strategy in eludes a. supplier strategy. b. operations strategy. c. logistics strategy. d. all of the above e. none of th

57、e above Answer: d Difficulty: Moderate 13. Customer demand from different segments varies along which of the following attributes. a. The quantity of product needed in each lot. b. The response time that customers are willing to tolerate .C. The variety of products needed .d. The service level requi

58、red.e. all of the above Answ :e er Difficulty: Easy 14. Which of the following is not an attribute along which customer dema nd varies. 15. a. b. C.d. The uniqueness of the product .The quantity of product needed in each lot. The variety of products needed .The desired rate of innovation in the prod

59、uct. All of the above are attributes. Answer: a Difficulty: Moderate 16. The un certainty of customer dema nd for a product is the a. rate of strategic uncertainty. b. demand uncertainty .13 c. implied dema nd uncertai nty. d. average forecast error. e. none of the above Answer: b Difficulty: Modera

60、te 27. The uncertainty that exists due to the portion of demand that the supply chain is required to meet is the a. rate of strategic uncertainty. b. demand uncertainty .c. implied dema nd uncertai nty. d. average forecast error. e. none of the above Answer: c Difficulty: Moderate 18. Which of the f