Identify the level where the decisions are made based on the activities that are

managed on a day-to-day basis.

Configuration level

Strategic level

Operational level

Tactical level

Question 2
Which strategic fit scope can be considered when a manufacturer partner with
different suppliers and distributors depending on the product requirement and the
customer being served?

Agile intercompany - interfunctional scope

Intracompany - intraoperation scope

Intracompany - interfunctional scope

Intracompany - intrafunctional scope

Question 3
State whether True or False.

1. Demand uncertainty is the uncertainty of customers’ demand for the product.

2. Implied demand uncertainty is the demand uncertainty for a supply chain that
occurs due to multiple supply chains supplying the same product. 

1-True, 2-False

1-True, 2- True

1-False, 2-False

1- False, 2- True
Question 4
Which one of the following processes of Supply Chain Management involves the
creation of effective supply chain strategies?

Planning

Establishing the supply chain

Procurement

Classifying the problem

Question 5
Which of the following approach is learnt and mastered by experience and self-
learning?

Combination approach

Interactive approach

Exact approach

Heuristic approach

Question 6
In which of the following situation a company can achieve strategic fit?

If there is a balance between the responsiveness and efficiency in the business

processes

If its competitive strategies and supply chain strategies have different goals

If its supply chain is not able to satisfy the targeted customer segments

If the supply chain design, processes, and resources do not support the desired goal

Question 7
 Identify the strategic fit scope that is limited to one operation in a functional area
within a company.

Intercompany - interfunctional scope

Intracompany - interfunctional scope

Intracompany - intrafunctional scope

Intracompany - intraoperation scope

Question 8
Which among the following are mostly used to transport liquid and gases?

Truck

Package Carrier

Pipeline

Rail

Question 9
Identify the modes of transportation that best suit time-sensitive and emergency
shipments.

Air

Truck

Water transportation

Pipeline

Question 10
What is inventory cost?

It is the cost involved in direct labour used in the service

 It is the cost involved in holding the goods in storage.

It is the cost involved in the transportation of goods from a source to the

destination.

It is the cost involved in maintaining the factory or the workspace of the carrier.

Question 1
Which of the following model minimises the transportation cost of both raw materials
and the finished goods?

Demand point location model

Capacitated plant location model

Gravity location model

Network optimisation model

Question 2
Identify four types of risk pooling.

Location pooling, Demand pooling, Forecast pooling, Capacity pooling

Location pooling, Product pooling, Lead time pooling, Capacity pooling

Demand pooling, Product pooling, Lead time pooling, Inventory pooling

Location pooling, Demand pooling, Lead time pooling, Forecast pooling

Question 3
Which among the following pooling method is used to decrease the inventory while
holding service constant, or to increase service while holding inventory cost, or is
used to combine inventory reduction and service increase?

Location pooling
 Product pooling

Capacity pooling

Lead time pooling

Question 4
State whether True or False.
1. Macroeconomic factors comprise taxes, exchange rates, and other economic
factors that are not internal to the firm.
2. The network design of supply chain provides a strategic way to capture the
dependencies between various operational units.

1-True, 2-False

1- False, 2- True

1-True, 2- True

1-False, 2-False

Question 5
Identify the local production facility which is established to gain the knowledge and
skills of a certain region.

Outpost facility

Lead facility

Contributor facility

Server facility

Question 6
Which among the following facilities provide the low-cost facility for global
production?

Contributor facility

Source facility
 Offshore facility

Outpost facility

Question 7
Ordering cost is the

Cost involved in back-ordering or penalty cost for lost sales.

Cost of holding inventory.

Total cost involved in placing and receiving the order.

Question 8
Which among the following model is used when the supply is uniform at uniform
intervals such as 10 meters of cloth per week?

Single period model

Fixed order quantity model

Fixed order interval model

Single order quantity model

Question 9
Choose an inventory process wherein a company sells a product to a consumer
without having the product in inventory.

Drop shipping

Physical shipping

Bulk shipping

Stock shipping

Question 10
 Identify two types of network design models.

Network optimisation model and Cost inventory model

Network optimisation model and Gravity model

Cost inventory model and Demand forecast model

Demand forecast model and Gravity model

Question 1
State whether True or False.
1. Supply chain management associated with maintaining quality in all the aspects of
the system such as inputs, processes, machines, people, plant, procedures as means
of developing products and providing services.
2. Quality management consists of every step that is involved with the production
and delivery of raw materials and finished product from the initial to the final stage.

1-True, 2- True

1- False, 2- True

1-True, 2-False

1-False, 2-False

Question 2
Sequentially arrange the basic steps involved in the purchasing process.

Supplier selection, Request to purchase/requisition, Fulfilment, Purchase order,

Goods receipt, Supplier invoice/payment

Request to purchase/requisition, Purchase order, Supplier selection, Fulfilment,

Goods receipt, Supplier invoice/payment

Supplier selection, Request to purchase/requisition, Purchase order, Fulfilment,

Goods receipt, Supplier invoice/payment

Request to purchase/requisition, Supplier selection, Purchase order, Fulfilment,

Goods receipt, Supplier invoice/payment
Question 3
State whether the given statements are true/false:

1. Leverage type of purchase occurs when a single supplier is the only source of
providing materials required by a company that has stringent specifications and no
other suppliers can provide those materials.

2.Bottleneck type of purchase occurs when there are unique and expensive items that
are very important for a company's success.

1-False, 2-False

1-True, 2-True

1-True, 2- False

1-False, 2-True

Question 4
__________ is defined as the time interval from when a customer places an order to
the time the customer receives the order.

Batch ordering

Time frame

Lead time

Demand forecasting

Question 5
In which step of the purchasing process, the supplier despatches the materials to the
buyers?

Fulfilment
 Purchase order

Supplier invoice

Goods receipt

Question 6
Choose two SCM constructs that were identified by the researchers.

Top management leadership, Products and services design

Process management, Quality data and reporting

Customer relationship, Internal lean practices

Employee training, Human relation

Question 7
What is the bullwhip effect?

Increase in the demand variation in a supply chain from downstream to upstream

Occurs when there is medium-to-high expenditure

Occurs when a single supplier is the only source of providing materials required by
a company that has stringent specifications and no other suppliers can provide
those materials

Decrease in the demand variation in a supply chain from downstream to upstream

Question 8
Which of the following cost can be reduced by aggregating the product movement?

Order cost

Warehouse cost

Inventory cost
 Transportation cost

Question 9
Which of the following method considers the expert's opinions while creating the
forecasts?

Casual method

Time-series method

Market research method

Judgement method

Question 10
Identify four levels of purchasing strategic decisions from the following.

Supply strategy, Corporate strategy, Inventory strategy, Functional strategy

Management strategy, Corporate strategy, Inventory strategy, Functional strategy

Management strategy, Corporate strategy, Vendor strategy, Functional strategy

Mission or vision, Corporate strategy, Business strategy, Functional strategy

Question
1
State whether true or false.

1.Direct shipment is a strategy that involves the storage of goods in a systematic and
orderly manner on a large scale basis.

2. Warehousing is the strategy wherein warehouses are used as inventory

coordination points rather than inventory storage points.
 1-False, 2-True

1-True,2-True

1-True,2-False

1-False,2-False

Question 2
Which of the following is a situation wherein one party has more relevant or better
information than the other party involved in a transaction?

Information asymmetry

Uncertainty

Information switching

Asset specificity

Question 3
Identify the strategy used by firms to produce stocks according to the order?

Push-based strategy

Centralised strategy

Distribution strategy

Pull-based strategy

Question 4
The warehouses that are owned, managed, and controlled by the central/state
government or the local authorities/public corporations are called as ___________.

Co-operative warehouses

Public warehouses
 Government warehouses

Bonded warehouses

Question 5
In which of the following strategy, the supplier decides the inventory levels and the
inventory policies to maintain the inventory?

Quick Response (QR)

Third-party logistics (3PL)

Continuous Replenishment (CR)

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Question 6
State whether True or False.

1. The supply chain system is said to be centralised when the top management level
of supply network is owned by a single entity.

2. The supply chain system is said to be under decentralised control when all the
sub-organisations have the privacy to make their own decisions in the supply
network.

1-True, 2-False

1-True, 2- True

1- False, 2- True

1-False, 2-False

Question 7
Which of the following is the indirect benefit of outsourcing?

Focusing on core competency

 Reducing the expenses of manufacturing and logistics services

Reducing the headcount of hourly employees and management

Developing resources and contacts

Question 8
Which of the following process is forecast-driven and executed in response to the
customer demand forecast?

Pull-based strategy

Push-based strategy

Distribution strategy

Centralised strategy

Question 9
Which of the following categories of 3PL companies provide standard logistic services
such as warehousing, packing, and distribution?

Service developers

Customer developers

Customer adapters

Standard 3PL companies

Question 10
Identify three types of strategic alliances in supply chain management.

Business to Business (B2B), Retailer-Supplier Partnerships (RSP), Total Cost of

Ownership (TCO)

Third-Party Logistics (3PL), Retailer-Supplier Partnerships (RSP), Total Cost of

Ownership (TCO)

Third-Party Logistics (3PL), Retailer-Supplier Partnerships (RSP), Distributor

 Integration (DI)

Business to Business (B2B), Retailer-Supplier Partnerships (RSP), Business to

Consumer (B2C)

Question 1

In which of the following standardisation approaches, the common parts are used
across many products?

Product standardisation

Process standardisation

Procurement standardisation

Part standardisation

Question 2
___________ comprises order fulfilment at each stage of production operation until
the product is delivered to the end customer.

Value operation

Value creation

Value delivery

Value process

Question 3
State whether True or False.

1. Taggants are invisible materials with a complex molecular structure that contain
information about the product such as the manufacturer's code, lot number, and so
on.

2. Products packed in a saleable unit, carton, or any pallet are encoded using
technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or 2D barcode.
 1-True, 2-False

1-True, 2- True

1- False, 2- True

1-False, 2-False

Question 4
Which of the following risk mitigation strategy is designed with various suppliers
and surplus manufacturing capacities in different countries?

Speculative strategy

Flexible strategy

Distribution strategy

Hedge strategy

Question 5
Which part of the supply chain process plans, implements, and controls the flow and
storage of goods and in-process inventory?

Quality Management

Transportation

Logistics

Business Process Reengineering

Question 6
Identify the products that have to be designed differently and manufactured
specifically for certain regions.

Region-specific products

Centralised products
 True global products

Distributed products

Question 7
In which stage of New Product/Process/Service Development (NPD) process, the
designers and marketing personnel find out the need for the product?

Business/Technical assessment

Idea generation

Prototype build

Process concept development

Question 8
Which of the following risk mitigation strategy reduces the cost of logistics by
efficient use of resources such as warehouses and trucks, but can increase inventory
levels?

Flexible strategy

Speculative strategy

Hedge strategy

Distribution strategy

Question 9
Choose the concept that defines mass customisation as the ability to provide
customers with products and services anytime, anywhere and anyway they want.

Practical concept

Product concept

Visionary concept

Global concept
Question 10
State whether the given statements are true/false.

1. Process standardisation involves establishing norms for the equipment and

procurement approaches.

2. Product standardisation is standardised for different products and then the

products are customised.

1-True, 2-False

1-True,2-Trrue

1-False, 2-True

1-False,2-False

Question 1
State whether the given statements are Tue/False.

1.Legacy databases allow the user to report and query on the data that are stored in
the database.

2.Relational databases are built on a network database.

1-False;2-True

1-True;2-True

1-False;2-False

1-True;2-False

Question 2
 Which of the following communication application enables the tracking of a truck or a
cargo during transportation of goods?

Groupware

Data exchange

Transportation product tracking

Supply Chain Event Management

Question 3
___________ is the inter-organisational exchange of business documents in a
structured form using computers.

Internet Commerce

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Bar Code and Scanner

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Question 4
Identify three modules of Decision Support Systems (DSS).

Human Resource Information System (HRIS), Management Information System

(MIS), Dialogue Generation and Management System (DGMS)

Database Management System (DBMS), Management Information System (MIS),

Dialogue Generation and Management System (DGMS)

Database Management System (DBMS), Model Base Management System

(MBMS), Dialogue Generation and Management System (DGMS)

Database Management System (DBMS), Human Resource Information System

(HRIS), Executive Information Systems (EIS)

Question 5
Identify the software solution that addresses the requirements of firms by integrating
all functions using the process view of the organisation.
 Human Resource Information System (HRIS)

Database Management System (DBMS)

Management Information System (MIS)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Question 6
Which phase of a life cycle approach involves conceptual design that is best suited for
the company and customer requirements?

Development

System assessment

Coordinate planning

Integration

Question 7
State whether True or False.

1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) gathers the information regarding the customer
orders that are located in different systems into one single system and helps
companies keep track of all the orders.

2. The database generally includes all the transactions, status, and other information
about products, inventory, vendors, or resources.

1- False, 2- True

1-True, 2- True

1-False, 2-False

1-True, 2-False

Question 8
State whether True or False.
 1. Bar code is used to study the bars and spaces and it uses software to interpret
their meaning.

2. Scanner is a combination of parallel bars (usually blocks) of varying widths

separated by light spaces (usually white) of varying width.

1-True, 2-False

1-False, 2-False

1- False, 2- True

1-True, 2- True

Question 9
Which among the following is a collection of data analysis tools that are designed to
be applied to a company's most significant financial and performance data?

Management Information System (MIS)

Database Management System (DBMS)

Executive Information Systems (EIS)

Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS)

Question 10
Which of the following is a quality system that associates the customer requirements
with different business functions and organisational processes?

Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

Life Cycle Approach (LCA)

Concurrent Engineering (CE)

Customer Relationship Management