CPIM – Basics of Supply Chain Management CPIM-BSP(CPIM-BSCM) Dumps

1. The overall objective of an integrated supply chain can best be described as the achievement of:

2. A company's cost of goods sold would be found on which of the following financial documents?

3. In an assemble-to-order production environment, the master production schedule contains:

4. Which of the following manufacturing systems involves the creation of one unit or a small number of units?

5. After a quality improvement program has been successfully implemented, the greatest cost of controlling quality typically is the cost of:

6. In the income statement, the cost of goods sold is related to the:

7. Manufacturing overhead includes which of the following types of costs?

8. The question below is based on the following cost information:

What is the carrying cost?

9. Which of the following concepts could a firm implement to reduce defects?

10. Inventory turns is an appropriate performance measure for which of the following functions?

11. The primary purpose of enterprise resources planning is to:

12. Which of the following techniques typically eliminates common errors?

13. Which of the following characteristics is most distinctive of lean manufacturing?

14. Which of the following manufacturing environments presents the greatest complexity in promising completion dates for customer orders?

15. Which of the following types of layouts is most efficient in a lean production environment?

16. The lean production concept works best in which of the following manufacturing environments?

17. The principal objective of total quality management in manufacturing is to:

18. Which practice focuses on root cause analysis?

19. Which of the following production environment strategies requires unique design or significant customization?

20. The theory of constraints is most effective when:

21. Which of the following manufacturing processes would be characterized by a narrow range of standard products, low direct labor costs, and a high level of technical support for manufacturing?

22. Which of the following statements characterizes an intermittent manufacturing environment?

23. Gemba is a Japanese word meaning:

24. Which of the following terms refers to the practice of stopping the production line when a defect occurs?

25. Reducing set up time will affect item lead time and throughput in which of the following ways?

26. Which of the following tools is considered to be one of the seven quality tools?

27. A firm offers products configured from a large number of stocked options.

Which of the following production environments is the firm most likely to use?

28. Which of the following items is considered an external failure cost?

29. Which of the following is a graphical representation of a frequency distribution?

30. Which plant type describes a product at one stage that can be transformed into several distinct products at the next stage (divergent points)?

31. Which of the following issues would be of greatest concern for a company choosing to reduce its finished goods inventory?

32. Which of the following factors is included in cost of goods sold?

33. Having the needed materials within easy reach of a subassembly process eliminates waste of:

34. Having bolts and tools at the point of use on the automobile assembly line eliminates the waste of:

35. A production rate based on customer demand is called:

36. Which of the following types of manufacturing processes would tend to have the lowest work in process (WIP) inventory?

37. An electronic board that provides visibility on the production floor is:

38. The heijunka philosophy can best be described as:

39. Which of the following situations is characteristic of a make-to-stock environment?

40. Which of the following factors is most likely to affect the demand for a company's services or products?

41. Which of the following describes a competitive characteristic that a firm must exhibit to be considered as a supplier in a market?

42. The question below is based on the following information:

What is the forecast for period 34 if a simple three-period moving average is used?

43. Which of the following statements is true regarding the concept of independent demand?

44. Which of the following factors most likely will impact the demand for a firm's products or services?

45. The contribution made by an operation to the final usefulness of a product is known as:

46. Characteristics that cause customers to consider a company's products or services are called:

47. When demand is uncertain, what is the most appropriate action to take?

48. An order winner is a competitive characteristic that:

49. Service parts needs are most often determined by:

50. Which of the following functional areas decides the product to be supplied and the customers to be served?

51. Which of the following items is a source of independent demand?

52. Which of the following calculations is a major component that is used with extrinsic forecasting?

53. The question below is based on the following information:

What is the mean absolute deviation of demand for the data?

54. Which of the following forecasting techniques reviews a company's sales history?

55. Which of the following forecasting techniques eliminates the need to keep months of historical data?

56. A 5-year decline in demand for diapers most closely represents which of the following types of forecast patterns?

57. Which of the following smoothing constants places the most weight on the old forecast?

58. Which demand management activity includes processing a customer request and making material available for production or shipping?

59. Which of the following forecast inputs is considered to be intrinsic data?

60. A primary purpose of Quality Function Deployment is to:

61. A distributor provides customer service by improving which of the following market driven factors?

62. Which of the following situations requires the largest amount of safety stock based on demand variability and replenishment lead time?