Week 1 Assignment

1. Supply chain consists of following except

(a) Manufacturer

(b) Consumer

(c) Customer

(d) Vendor

2. Which of the following is not a type of flow in a supply chain?

(a) Material

(b) Labour

(c) Funds

(d) Information

3. Which of the following is correct?

(a) Real time decision making can be achieved using supply chain analytics.

(b) Supply chain analytics can help in optimizing the decisions.

(c) Supply chain analytics can give new insights from past data.

(d) All of the above

4. Which of the following is not correct?

(a) The objective of supply chain is to maximize the supply chain surplus.

(b) The objective of supply chain is to ensure availability of product at minimum cost.

(c) The objective of supply chain is to ensure faster response to customer needs.

(d) The objective of supply chain is to optimize the manpower requirement.

5. A decision like supplying the requirement of a market from a facility, is a ………

(a) Supply chain design decision

(b) Supply chain strategy decision

(c) Supply chain planning decision

(d) Supply chain operation decision

6. Which of the following is correct?

(a) Supply chain decisions can be categorized in three phases.

(b) Supply chain decisions can be categorized in two phases.

(c) Supply chain decisions can be categorized in four phases.

(d) Supply chain decisions can be categorized as per the nature of supply chain.

7. Which of the following is correct?

(a) Ford, Toyota and Dell are important organization in evolution of supply chain management.

(b) Ford, Toyota , Dell and WallMart are important organization in evolution of supply chain

management.

(c) Ford and Dell are important organization in evolution of supply chain management.

(d) Ford, Maruti and Dell are important organization in evolution of supply chain management.

8. Which of the following is “Speculative process” in a supply chain?

(a) Pull Process

(b) Push Process

(c) Cyclic Process

(d) All of the above

9. Which of the following products can use push process for most stages of the supply chain?

(a) Chocolates

(b) Turbine

(c) Designer clothes

(d) Services of a doctor

10. Which of the following is correct?

(a) Push /Pull boundary is always in centre of a supply chain.

(b) Push /Pull boundary is always in extreme left of a supply chain.

(c) Push /Pull boundary is always in extreme right of a supply chain.

(d) Push /Pull boundary depends upon the distribution of risk among various stages of supply

chain.

1. B 2.B 3.D 4.D 5.C 6.A 7.A 8.B 9.A 10.D