APICS cpim practice test

Life cycle approach for identifying order winners and qualifiers is complicated in that:

• A. The duration of life cycle will be very different for different products.
• B. Customer needs change work frequently
• C. Life cycle phase are difficult to understand
• D. Not a single requirement applies to all these of life cycle

Which one of the following is a basic strategy to achieve the level of shortest lead time?

• A. Engineer-to-order
• B. Assemble-to-order
• C. Make-to-stock
• D. None of these

This is the situation of lead time strategy in case of:

A. Engineer-to-order
B. Make-to-stock
C. Make-to-order
D. None of these

Which one of following is not an important factor in supply chain?

• A. The supply chain includes all activities and processes to supply a product or service to a final customer
• B. Any number of companies can be linked in the supply chain
• C. product or services usually flow from customer to supplier and design and demand information usually flows from customer to supplier. Rarely is this not so.
• D. A customer can be a supplier to another customer so the total chain can have a number of supplier customer relationships.

With the explosive growth in just-in-time (JIT) concepts, the supplier-customer partnership concept
grew as a result many changes in their relationships came including:

• A. Mutual analysis for cost reduction
• B. Mutual product design
• C. Need for rapid delivery
• D. Speed of accurate information flow

As 1980 gave way to the 1990 the world continued to change, forcing additional changes in supply-
chain concepts. All of the following statements depict those changes EXCEPT:

• A. Explosive growth in computer capability applications as ERP.
• B. Large growth in global competition
• C. growth in the technological capabilities for product and processes
• D. Growth in JIT

To result in optimal performance for customer service and cost, it is felt that the supply chain of
activities as an extension of partnership. This implies many issues, but critical one/s include/includes:

• A. Flow of material
• B. Flow of information and sharing of information, mostly through the internet
• C. Fund transfers
• D. All of these

Take as an example the supply chain of organizations that represent the flow from raw silicon used to
make computer chips to the delivery and disposal of the computer itself:

What is illustrated here is but one chain of a set of different component chains that represent a
network of suppliers and distributors for a product to manage a supply chain one must:

• A. Try of efficiently plan material and information flows along each chain to maximize cost efficiency, effectiveness, delivery and flexibility.
• B. Understand the network of suppliers and customers
• C. Rapid flows of accurate information and increased organizational flexibility
• D. All of these

What was/were the conflict/s in traditional system before the growth of supply chain concept?

• A. Supply, production and distribution system were organized into separate functions that reported to different departments of a company.
• B. Often departmental objectives were maximized without considering the effect they would have on other parts of the system.
• C. Costly distribution systems were these
• D. Strategy of high inventory pile up was following

To get most profit, a company must have:

• A. Best customers service
• B. Lowest production and inventory costs
• C. Lowest distribution costs
• D. All of these