List of questions - International Supply Chain Management

Lecture Units

Integrated logistics

01 What are the objectives of Supply Chain Management?

01 How many levels characterize the SCOR-model? Define each level!

01 Name five offshoring and five backshoring reasons?

01 Give four conflicts of goals in logistics!

01 What are the six “r’s” of logistics? Name them and give one example for each.

01 Which four factors determine the position of the logistics function in a company?

01 What do you know about logistics 4.0? What its challenge?

Material inventory and material requirements in the enterprise

02 Which different goods can be distinguished within the materials management?

Which types of determination of material requirements are there? Name the respective
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data basis!
Which types of cost influence the optimum order quantity? Please give 3 examples of
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each type of cost!
How is the most cost-effective order quantity calculated (incl. derivation and legend!)
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and which assumptions of the Andler-Model are necessary?

02 Draft the storage model and term its operating figures!

02 Explain the area of conflict regarding the safety stock!

Strategic procurement

03 Under which circumstances is it better to make? Name five of the circumstances!

03 Name four different procurement strategies!

03 Which problems can be caused by outsourcing?

03 Name three tangible and three intangible resources!

03 How can competences be categorized?

03 What are the advantages of single sourcing?

03 Explain the difference between Just-in Time and Just-in-Sequence!

Management of procurement and purchasing
Name two advantages and disadvantages of both centralized and decentralized
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procurement!
04 Explain the Lead-Buyer-Concept and outline an example!

04 Name the steps of the operative procurement process and give a short description!

The supplier management can be divided into three steps. Name them and describe
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two of them!
04 Explain the ABC-analysis! What targets and goals does it have?
In how many steps is the Operations Research (OR) problem solving process divided?
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Name all of them and explain three!
Explain the difference between strategic and operative procurement! Give an example
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of both type of procurement.
What is the purpose of Operations Research (OR)? Describe the OR procedure with
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the help of a diagram!

Fundamentals of production systems

05 Name the five phases of production and point out their connection with a graph!

05 What are the two parts of the work preparation phase?

Name two examples for each kind of planning tasks according to long-term, medium-
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term and short-term tasks!

05 Production control is influenced by lots of various factors. List five of them!

Various tasks have to be fulfilled during the manufacturing and assembly process.
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Name three tasks for each of the two processes!
05 Name three advantages and three disadvantages of the Kanban system!
05 What are the advantages of the one-piece-flow principle? List two of them!
There are two completely different ways to organize production and to release
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production orders. Name them and assign Kanban and Heijunka to the right principle!

Warehouse management, picking systems, material handling, packaging

06 Name five reasons for creating warehouses!

Which different warehouse types exist? Name five different types of warehouses and
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one related advantage and disadvantage of each.
What are the advantages of a centralized and a decentralized warehouse? Name four
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advantages of each type.
06 Name four possibilities to reduce inventory!

06 Name three advantages and three disadvantages of inventory!

 06 What are the aspects that influence warehouse organization?

There are three different strategies of commissioning. Name, describe and put them in
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order according to their degree of automation from low to high!
Name three tracking principles for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and their special
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advantages!

Distribution logistics, global tracking and tracing

07 Name the four most relevant production site selection factors!

07 What are the stages of warehouses in the vertical distribution structure?

07 Which elements influence a company’s distribution cost structure most?

07 What does the acronym CPFR stand for? Why do you think CPFR is necessary?
Explain how a complete and global tracking and tracing solution for the production and
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assembly of a windscreen might look like!
07 How can incoterms help to improve international good flows?

07 What is meant by the acronym ECR? Name its components!

Modes of transport in international logistics

08 What are the recent developments in the transport logistics?

Which criteria to evaluate external transport systems are there? Categorize them and
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give examples!

08 Explain the cost structure of road traffic! Name the influencing factors!

What are the disadvantages arising from the steady increase of ship sizes for bulk
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cargo and container transportation?

08 What are the current efforts in the fight against piracy concerning sea freight traffic?

Air fright and sea freight are often in competition with each other. Explain the
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differences!

08 What are CEP services? Name and explain the 3 different types!

Disposal logistics

09 Draw and describe the change in the product life cycle!

Explain the „poluter pays principle“ in the context of a changing structure of product life
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cycles!

09 Name and describe the two objectives of disposal logistics? Which conflicts can arise?

Name three possible disposal strategies. Describe the related content and give one
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example for each strategy! Also describe the order of applying the strategies!
 09 How can you categorize the services of disposal logistics? Give examples!

Illustrate the phases of the disposal logistics! Give examples and explain the analogy
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to the supply logistics!
Waste management can be divided into three dimensions. Name those dimensions
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and explain the context!

Logistics controlling

10 What are the four objectives of logistics controlling?

10 Name the eight steps in which logistics controlling is carried out.

What are the main tasks of a decision-oriented cost and performance accounting?
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Name two examples for each task.
In which steps does the system developed by „Reichmann“ organize the logistic costs
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and performance accounting?
Name three key figures of the warehousing business practice! Explain the formulas
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and give examples!
10 What is benchmarking?

Global logistic structures and supply chains

11 Explain the differences between vertical and horizontal cooperation strategies!

Name and explain the two types of postponement! What are the risks of
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postponement?
11 What are the decisive cost items of logistics in global production?

11 Name the steps of the procedural model for integrated globalization strategy!

11 Which location and process parameters are important for site selection?

IT systems in supply chain management

12 Give each of three objectives and problems for ERP-Software!

12 Name all four core tasks of PPS and give one example of each!

12 Describe social CRM! Name three advantages and problems each!

12 Define APS and describe briefly where an APS can be added to an existing production!
Name three standard electronic exchange formats for the transfer of business data and
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their application domain!
12 Describe all three categories of e-procurement systems and give one example of each!

Sustainable supply chain management

13 Explain two reasons for sustainability in supply chain!

 13 What is a sustainable supply chain management? Draw the model!

13 Draw the technical energy process for supply chain with inputs and outputs!

13 Name and bring examples for seven stages of a product life cycle!

13 What are the sustanability strategies?

13 Draw the model to show the amount of carbon emission along the product life cycle!

13 For green product development, explain two examples from electronics production.

Case Studies

Basic relations between suppliers – OEM – customer

Illustrate and explain the bullwhip effect! Describe any five factors that have impact on
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bullwhip effect and propose countermeasures!
Describe five factors that have impact on bullwhip effect and propose counter
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measures!
1 What is the purpose of the beer game?
Explain the difference between the Forrester and the Burbidge effect! Use a diagram to
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explain!
Label the following Input-Output diagram showing Forrester and Burbidge sources of
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demand amplification!
Explain the feedforward logic! How can this forecasting mechanism contribute to the
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system instability!
1 Describe the four material flow principles for bullwhip reduction!

Internationalization of supply chains

What are the basic risk factors and problems SMEs are facing in the course of its
2 expansion on foreign markets. Develop a classification of the main barriers and
dangers of internationalization!
How can you categorize the location factors concerning the internationalization of
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supply chains?
Sketch the different strategies for internationalization of supply chains into a matrix!
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Label the axes of the matrix too.

Green supply chains

All sub-processes of logistics services offer opportunities to establish green aspects.

3 Try to find a “go green” measure for each logistic service. Identify a specific problem
(emissions, material …) and give a concrete example of environmental improvements!

3 Define Green SCM in one sentence and name the focus of green SCM!

3 Please name four reasons to establish a green supply chain!

3 Please name four benefits of implementing a green SCM!