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Chapter 16 - Supply Chain Management
Chapter 16 Supply Chain Management Answer Key
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. The design and management of seamless, value-added processes across organizational
boundaries to meet the real needs of the end customer is called
2. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding supply chain operations?
3. The five measures of supply chain performance are
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7. Which of the following is a form of supply chain system change?
8. Which of the following is NOT true of vertical integration?
9. Which of the following is NOT true about supply chain dynamics?
Chapter 16 - Supply Chain Management
*The following question addresses the Operations Leader box in Section 16.6.
10. __________ is a partnership of retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers aimed at
managing both demand and the supply chain.
11. Which of the following is NOT a specific measure of supply chain performance?
12. Which of the following is NOT a form of structural change of the supply chain?
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16. The flow of materials from upstream nodes into a firm is called
17. Which of the following does the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model NOT
include?
18. Which of the following is NOT one of the distinct processes described in the SCOR
model?
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19. The efficient consumer response (ECR) movement was formed as a partnership among
retailers, wholesalers, and producers in what industry?
20. The efficient consumer response (ECR) movement was formed to
21. Specific measures of supply chain performance include all of the following EXCEPT
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22. Which of the following supply chain improvements would be done first?
23. Assume a company has $700,000 worth of inventory and averages $10,000 per day in
sales. Also assume it takes 30 days for the average customer to pay off its invoice to this
company and it takes 120 days for the company to pay for the materials supplied by its
suppliers. What is the company’s average cash-to-cash cycle time?
24. Commonly employed forms of supply chain structural improvement include all of the
following EXCEPT
