1、供应链管理SCM练习 英文版Supply Chain Management ExerciseTrue or False1. A supply chain includes only the organizations directly involved in supplying components needed for manufacturing.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate2. A supply chain consists of all parties involved, directly or indirectly, in fulfilling a
2、 customer request.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate3. A supply chain could be more accurately described as a supply network or supply web.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate4. The objective of every supply chain is to maximize the overall value generated.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy5. The objective of e
3、very supply chain is to maximize the value generated for the manufacturing component of the supply chain.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate6. All supply chain activities within a firm belong to one of three macro processes CRM, ISCM and SRM.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy7. There is a close connection b
4、etween the design and management of supply chain flows and the success of a supply chain.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy8. A companys competitive strategy defines the set of customer needs that it seeks to satisfy through its products and services.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy9. The value chain emphasiz
5、es the close relationship between all the functional strategies within a company.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate10. A companys product development strategy defines the set of customer needs that it seeks to satisfy through its products and services.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate11. A companys pr
6、oduct development strategy specifies the portfolio of new products that it will try to develop.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy12. A companys supply chain strategy specifies how the market will be segmented and how the product will be positioned, priced, and promoted.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Easy13. A c
7、ompanys supply chain strategy determines the nature of procurement and transportation of materials as well as the manufacture and distribution of the product.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy14. The degree of supply chain responsiveness should be consistent with the implied uncertainty.Answer: TrueDiffic
8、ulty: Easy15. The degree of supply chain responsiveness does not need to be consistent with the implied uncertainty.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate16. The two major types of facilities are distribution sites and storage sites.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate17. Inventory is an important supply ch
9、ain driver because changing inventory policies can dramatically alter the supply chains efficiency and responsiveness.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate18. Information is potentially the biggest driver of performance in the supply chain as it directly affects each of the other drivers.Answer: TrueDiff
10、iculty: Easy19. The high utilization facility will have no more difficulty responding to demand fluctuations than one with a lot of unused capacity.Answer: False Difficulty: Easy20. Stock keeping unit (SKU) storage is the warehousing methodology that uses a traditional warehouse to store all of one
11、type of product together.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate21. Warehouse unit storage is the warehousing methodology that uses a traditional warehouse to store all of one type of product together.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate22. Distribution occurs between every pair of stages in the supply chain.
12、Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate23. Distribution only occurs between manufacturing and consumers in the supply chain.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate24. Companies in the same industry often select very different distribution networks, because the choice of the distribution network can be used to ac
13、hieve a variety of supply chain objectives ranging from low cost to high responsiveness.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate25. The main advantage of a distribution network with local storage is that it can lower the delivery cost and provide a faster response than other networks.Answer: TrueDifficulty:
14、 Moderate26. When designing supply chain networks, companies must build appropriate flexibility to help counter fluctuations in exchange rates and demand across different countries.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate27. Inventory and facility costs increase as the number of facilities in a supply chain
15、 increase. Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate28. Transportation costs increase as the number of facilities is increased.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate29. When faced with a network design decision, the goal of a manager is to design a network that minimizes the firms costs while satisfying customer
16、needs in terms of demand and responsiveness.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Hard30. The supply chain network is designed to maximize total profits, taking into account the expected margin and demand in each market, various logistics and facility costs, and the taxes and tariffs at each location.Answer: Tru
17、eDifficulty: Easy31. Decisions made during the supply chain design phase regarding significant investments 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, cannot be altered in the short ter
18、m.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate32. Decisions made during the supply chain design phase regarding significant investments 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, rarely remain in
19、place for several years.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate33. Decisions made during the supply chain design phase regarding significant investments 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 s
20、pace, define the boundaries within which the supply chain must compete.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate34. Long-term contracts for both warehousing and transportation requirements will be more effective if the demand and price of warehousing do not change in the future or if the price of warehousing
21、 goes up.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy35. Long-term contracts for both warehousing and transportation requirements will be more effective if either demand or the price of warehousing drops in the future.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate36. The present value of future cash flows is found by using a di
22、scount factor.Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate37. The rate of return k is also referred to as the present value of capital.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Easy38. A negative NPV for an option indicates that the option will lose money for the supply chain.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate39. The decision wi
23、th the lowest NPV will provide a supply chain with the highest financial return.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate40. In reality, demand and prices are highly uncertain and are likely to fluctuate during the life of any supply chain decision.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate41. The goal of aggregate p
24、lanning is to satisfy demand in a way that minimizes profit.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Easy42. Aggregate planning is a process by which a company determines levels of capacity, production, subcontracting, inventory, stockouts, and even pricing over a specified time horizon.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Mode
25、rate43. Aggregate planning solves problems involving aggregate decisions rather than stock keeping unit (SKU) level decisions.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy44. Forecasting errors are dealt with in aggregate plans using either safety backlog or safety capacity.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate45. Safet
26、y inventory is defined as inventory held to satisfy demand that is higher than forecasted.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy46. Safety capacity is defined as capacity used to satisfy demand that is lower than forecasted.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Easy47. Companies should work with downstream partners to pro
27、duce forecasts and with upstream partners to determine constraints when doing aggregate planning.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy48. The aggregate plan should be viewed primarily as an in-house tool that does not need to be communicated to supply chain partners.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Easy49. Given tha
28、t forecasts are always wrong to some degree, the aggregate plan needs to have some flexibility built into it if it is to be useful.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Moderate50. With supply and demand management decisions being made independently, it is easier to coordinate the supply chain, thereby increasing
29、 profit.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Moderate51. A firm can vary supply of product by controlling production capacity and inventory.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy52. A firm that uses flexible work hours from the workforce to manage capacity to better meet demand is using a seasonal workforce.Answer: False
30、Difficulty: Moderate53. Offering a promotion during a peak period that has significant forward buying creates even more variable demand than before the promotion.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy54. Average inventory decreases if a promotion is run during the peak period and increases if the promotion is
31、 run during the off-peak period.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Easy55. Promoting during a peak demand month may decrease overall profitability if a significant fraction of the demand increase results from a forward buy.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Hard56. As forward buying becomes a smaller fraction of the dem
32、and increase from a promotion, it is less profitable to promote during the peak period.Answer: FalseDifficulty: Hard57. As the product margin declines, promoting during the peak demand period becomes less profitable.Answer: TrueDifficulty: Easy58. Cycle inventory exists because producing or purchasing in large lots allows a stage of the supp
