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A company moves its warehouse operations to a new location. Soon after, the company experiences higher shipping costs and delays in meeting delivery dates. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of these increased costs and delays?

• A.The transportation supplier is charging more to drive to the new warehouse.
• B.The new warehouse is staffed with inexperienced employees.
• C.The transportation supplier's drivers are having difficulty accessing the new warehouse.
• D.The new warehouse is farther away from suppliers than the previous one.

Which of the following is the MOST important reason for establishing and maintaining a supplier quality certification program?

• A.Quality champions from both the buyer and seller will have better opportunities to communicate.
• B.Certification programs keep suppliers focused on quality elements important to the customer.
• C.A supplier quality certification program is necessary for the development of a supplier scorecard.
• D.Supplier payments should be closely tied to maintaining quality standards.

The supply manager for a semiconductor company receives an emergency phone call from the firm's factory manager, who states that the manufacturing equipment is down and that a replacement part is needed as soon as possible. The supply manager checks the stock for this part but finds nothing. In this situation, the supply manager should do which of the following?

• A.Perform a cost analysis to examine if it is better to expedite the part or wait for the part's scheduled arrival date
• B.Ask the factory manager to perform an equipment failure analysis in order to understand the root cause of the equipment failure
• C.Contact the equipment supplier and ask it to coordinate an expedited delivery of the part as soon as possible
• D.Verify with the warehouse manager if there is an extra spare part in stock that was not correctly registered in the stock database system

A large retailer and one of its suppliers establish a process to combine intelligence from both organizations in order to improve product availability while reducing inventory, transportation, and logistics costs. This process is known as which of the following?

• A.Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment
• B.Vendor-managed inventory
• C.Enterprise resource planning
• D.Sales and operations planning

XYZ, Inc. is implementing a new automated system in its distribution center. The supply manager is developing measures to evaluate the success of the automated system pilot. Which of the following is the BEST metric to measure overall success of the pilot7

• A.Impact on labor hours
• B.Average cost of orders
• C.Adherence to forecasts
• D.Competitiveness of pricing