Certified in Logistics, Transportation and Distribution CLTD Study Materials

1. Which of the following shipment modes in the most prone to packaging and product damage?

2. When importing goods such as fruit and produce into the United States (U.S.), which government agency is responsible for protecting agriculture from harmful pests and diseases?

3. Under what circumstances should management generally consider utilizing qualitative forecasting techniques?

4. A carrier’s casts are driven by equipment movement rather than shipment weight.

Which of the following rates would be most appropriate for the carrier to utilize in charging its customers?

5. A customer is looking to purchase product from a company.

Which of the following outputs of outbound order management would the customer consider primary?

6. From a health and safety perspective, which of the following sets of parameters must be taken into account when considering manual material handling?

7. Which of the following categories is a weakness of the rail systems?

8. Which of the following statements represents the primary function of inventory?

9. Which of the following factors would be considered of strategic importance to a firm’s logistics function?

10. Which of the following lean tools would a warehouse team use to document, analyze, and improve the flow of information and materials to customers?

11. Climate-controlled warehouses are typically used:

12. An operations manager in concerned that the order-to-cash cycle for their largest customer is too long.

The manager is referring to the time that elapses from when the company receives an order from the customer until the:

13. Consignment inventory requires that manufacturers:

14. A pharmaceutical company makes drugs that control the spread of the influenza virus after outbreaks occur. Deployment to outbreak areas requires a transportation mode that is fast and provides door-to-door connectivity.

Which of the following modes of transportation should the company choose?

15. Which of the following inventory ordering techniques would a company’s corporate warehouse utilize if it is interested in meeting both the quantity and timing requirements of demand from its regional warehouses?

16. A company setting up a warehouse wants to maintain a first in, first out (FIFO) stock rotation.

Which of the following storage systems should they utilize?

17. A firm offers their customers shorter order cycle times and increased product variety.

Generally, this action would have which of the following impacts on total logistics costs?

18. A third-party logistics (3PL) provider is seeking to market its value-added warehousing services to international shippers.

These services refer to activities such as:

19. When determining the optimal logistics terminal location, one of the primary goals is to minimize:

20. In addition to declaring the origin of goods, a certificate of origin is used to determine the:

21. A supply chain manager is revising their organization’s supply chain strategy with a greater emphasis on collaborative supply chain relationships.

Which of the following barriers poses the greatest impediment to implementing their new strategy?

22. Given the data below, calculate the reorder point (ROP).

Average daily demand = 30 units/day

Lead time = 4 days

Safety stock = 20

23. According to the Theory of Comparative Advantage, which of the following reasons justifies a country to export a product?

24. A non-profit transportation membership cooperative that arranges for the domestic or international shipment of member’s cargo over any mode of transportation is known as a(n):

25. Which of the following statements best reflects the intent of a shipper and a carrier who are negotiating a contract utilizing the integrative bargaining technique?

26. In the economic utility function of logistics, logistics adds:

27. A corporation is projecting annual sales at $35 million, cost of goods sold (COGS) at $25 million, and administrative expenses at $3 million.

In order to meet its corporate inventory turns goal of 5.0, their inventory level must average:

28. Which of the following prerequisites is essential in order to establish an effective order management system?

29. In a retail firm’s implementation of vendor-managed inventory (VMI), what trading partners are responsible for setting target inventory levels and making restocking decisions?

30. An organization concentrating its efforts on meeting the internal performance standards related to availability, operational performance, and reliability has focused on which of the following aspects of the customer relationship?

31. Selecting a third-party logistics (3PL) or fourth-party logistics (4PL) provider is an example of a(n):

32. A carrier receives damaged goods.

What actions best describes what the carrier should do so that it is not liable for the damages?

33. A company’s distribution center receives material from a number of sources and combines them into exact quantities for a specific destination.

Which of the following functions is the distribution center providing?

34. A corporation is redesigning its warehouse and has decided to use a rack system that allows each level to be accesses individually by placing pallets on wheeled frames.

The rack system that best meets this criteria is:

35. A tracking company picks up a shipment and takes it to a terminal where it is consolidated with over shipments going to the same city.

This trucking company is most likely a:

36. An ocean carrier’s goal of maximizing total revenue of the entire ship by offering very competitive rates that cover their variable costs and then increasing rates according to what the traffic will bear is referred to as:

37. When a company decides not to purchase insurance to cover a risk, it is pursuing what type of risk strategy?

38. Which of the following costs are the most intangible and subjective of all the carrying cost elements?

39. Random stocking can be greatly improved through the use of a(n):

40. A manufacturer must consider the long-term effects of its products’ impact on the environment. A key product design consideration is:

41. A supply chain manager would like to guard against potential shortage in their company’s manufacturing capacity.

Which of the following areas of supply chain risk should the manager pay most attention to?

42. Which of the following forms of supply chain risk is considered the most disruptive?

43. What is the primary value-added service that a company would receive from using land-bridge services?

44. A company would like to encourage shippers to partner on sustainability initiatives.

Which of the following rates would best meet this objective?

45. Which of the following measures would a company use in attempting to improve its customer service dimension of dependability?

46. A logistic team has developed new packaging for their best-selling product that reduces the packaging costs by 60% and the overall package size by 25%. The material can no longer be stacked on pallets and must be shipped and stored in non-stackable, returnable plastic bins.

Which of the following statements bests represents the potential trade-offs of implementing this change?

47. A company would like to implement a strategic initiative of enhancing its reverse logistics process.

Which of the following statements best describes the profitability impact of such a strategy?

48. A developing country would like to improve its trade relations with Europe by updating its port infrastructure.

Which international organization would help fund the project?

49. Excluding cost, which of the following sets of criteria describes the primary drivers for transportation mode selection?

50. A planning process specifically designed to balance demand and supply within an organization and arrive at a consensus forecast is known as:

51. Which of the following outcomes of warehouse operations is the most critical in designing a warehouse?

52. Which of the following terms of payment should an international purchasing manager use to guarantee that the shipment is made and the shipper gets paid for their product?

53. A document that serves as a contract, a receipt, and a certificate of title in an international transaction is known as a:

54. The international commercial document that serves as a quote to obtain a letter of credit or an import license is called a(n):

55. A vessel operating under the threat of piracy or hostile military action is protected by the:

56. A company has prioritized A, B, and C, filling orders in that sequence.

What are the impact to customer service levels for customers B and C?

57. Which of the following modes of transportation is characterized as having the highest fixed cost and lowest variable cost?

58. Procurement professional are focused on the total cost of ownership (TCO) in their vendor selection strategies.

This implies that:

59. Higher throughput operations enable private warehouses to:

60. Which of the following activities best describes the functionality of decoupling stock within firms’ inventory systems?