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APICS Transformation for Supply Chain Sample Questions:
01. A core transformation design team is selected to include members with compatible and balanced personalities, problem-solving skills, and task discipline. What are other vital team member qualities?
a) Team members who are at similar levels of authority and are willing to assign resources from their own teams
b) Team members who all focus more on the vision than the details and can sell this vision
c) Direct access to benchmarking data sources and capability to integrate these data into supply chain processes
d) Direct access to critical systems and data and ability to perform queries
02. A company is assessing its supply chain transformation results against targeted key performance indicators (KPIs) and wants to track whether the change is taking root.
Which of the following tools is best to do this assessment?
a) Balanced scorecard
b) Business constraint analysis
c) Hoshin planning
d) Value stream mapping
03. Which of the following approaches would an organization adopt to develop a supply chain strategy that balances competing priorities of customer satisfaction, cost, and working capital?
a) Start with its suppliers' capabilities and move forward.
b) Start with its customer needs and work backward.
c) Start with its customer needs and work forward.
d) Start with its suppliers' capabilities and move backward.
04. In the as-is environment, all supply chains are measured at the top level with the same small set of key performance indicators (KPIs). Different supply chains use different customizations of lower-level metrics (e.g., one supply chain measures order completeness at the line level and another does so at the order level).
What needs improvement to execute a transformation?
a) Increase customization of top-level KPIs and lower-level metrics
b) Standardize top-level KPIs by ensuring the set is a good fit for all to-be supply chains
c) Standardize lower-level metric definitions and calculations
d) Increase the number of top-level KPIs and seek to be superior in each versus benchmark organizations
05. A company is monitoring and assessing risks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through supply chain crisis management teams located in key regions, which gives the company increased ability to address disruptions rapidly. This is an example of a:
a) resilient supply chain.
b) responsive supply chain.
c) flexible supply chain.
d) continuous supply chain.
06. The active executive sponsor knows that significant culture change is needed to succeed at the transformation. During a phase gate review for change management, the sponsor is told of slow progress. To sustain momentum, the sponsor recommends terminating unsupportive staff.
What will be the most likely outcome of this choice?
a) People will have more anxiety and change rate will slow
b) People will develop a higher sense of urgency and change rate will increase
c) People will have more intrinsic motivation and change rate will increase
d) People will develop a higher sense of urgency but change rate will slow
07. Which of the following optimization approaches would an organization most likely adopt if customer demand is uncertain and customers expect prompt delivery?
a) Lean
b) Six sigma
c) Agile operations
d) Total quality management (TQM)
08. When estimating the profit potential for a project in the transformation portfolio, which is a good practice to follow to increase chances of the project being chartered?
a) Calculate the monetary cost of trade-offs that are assumed to be in effect.
b) Describe benefits and costs only in qualitative terms during the pre-charter phase.
c) Develop a set of shared assumptions up front so they don’t need to be repeated in each estimate.
d) Calculate the savings per year as the cumulative savings in each year being analyzed.
09. Which of the following types of supply chain models reflects the practice of reusing an item either for its original purpose or to fulfill a different function?
a) Extended
b) Integrated
c) Linear
d) Circular
10. When working with leaders from sales, finance, inbound logistics, distribution, and so on, what is a prerequisite for creating a sense of urgency for a supply chain transformation?
a) Describe the benefits of allowing all supply chain processes to be directed by one orchestrating function.
b) Discuss how the overall supply chain process is larger than any one supply chain functional area.
c) Show how supply chain excellence adds economic value and functional area barriers destroy value.
d) Describe how logistics and distribution are the only directly impacted areas but other areas need patience.
Answers:
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Question: 01 Answer: d |
Question: 02 Answer: a |
Question: 03 Answer: b |
Question: 04 Answer: c |
Question: 05 Answer: a |
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Question: 06 Answer: b |
Question: 07 Answer: c |
Question: 08 Answer: a |
Question: 09 Answer: d |
Question: 10 Answer: b |
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