APICS CSCP Exam Questions 2021

NEW QUESTION 1
A company's annual cost of goods sold is $350 million, and inventory carrying cost is 18%. The company averages four inventory turns. The cost savings resulting from increasing inventory turns from four to six would be:

• A. $29,000,000.
• B. $15,750,000.
• C. $10,500,000.
• D. $ 5,250,000.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2
The most appropriate approach to balance supply and demand over the medium term is:

• A. Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• B. Business planning
• C. Strategic planning
• D. Sales and operations planning (S&OP)

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3
A company has outsourced a high volume of assembly work to top-tier suppliers, thereby reducing the overall number of suppliers they directly manage. Which of the following actions must the company perform to mitigate risk?

• A. Monitor lead times at sub-tier suppliers
• B. Maintain direct relationships with sub-tier suppliers
• C. Execute all terms of contracts at sub-tier suppliers
• D. Purchase all critical components for assembly at the company

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
Continuous process improvement is characterized by which two of the following key steps?

• A. Quality circles and benchmarking
• B. Process review and supplier audits
• C. Analysis and assessment
• D. Observation and selection

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
Which of the following types of information would be an appropriate basis for a qualitative forecast?

• A. Leading indicators
• B. Market research data
• C. Order history
• D. Shipment history

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6
The most appropriate strategy for a firm that makes and sells a wide range of items typically would be to domestically source items that have which of the following characteristics?

• A. Short product life cycle and many variations
• B. Short product life cycle and few variations
• C. High labor value and low transport uncertainty
• D. High labor value and high transport uncertainty domestically

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7
Which of the following customer relationship management activities most appropriately is used for revenue generation?

• A. Generating customer leads
• B. Generating graphic sales models
• C. Measuring customer preferences
• D. Identifying customer margins

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 8
In the Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR®), the cash-to-cash cycle time for a manufacturing company is the number of days between which two of the following
situations?

• A. Paying for raw materials and getting paid for the product
• B. Shipping the product from the warehouse and receiving it at the customer's location
• C. Paying for raw materials and sending an invoice to the customer
• D. Billing the customer and getting paid for the product

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 9
Implementation of supply chain applications based on which of the following technologies is most likely to have the lowest fixed costs?

• A. Best of breed packages
• B. One integrated package
• C. Service-oriented architecture
• D. Software-as-a-service

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
Which of the following statements about the use of bar code labels for product identification in the supply chain is true?

• A. They have been replaced by radio frequency identification tags.
• B. They can be read by devices 1 to 3 meters from the item.
• C. They facilitate the capture of information about the location of items.
• D. Each of the trading partners must apply a unique label.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 11
A company uses multiple ingredients to make a product that is sold in multiple countries. Each country requires country-specific labels. A third-party supplier provides the country- specific labels. The most appropriate push-pull interface is:

• A. raw materials to product.
• B. product to labels.
• C. finished product with labels.
• D. customer to finished product.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 12
A supervisor knows that employees have good ideas for improving department operations but are hesitant to share them. Which of the following tools would be most appropriate for encouraging the employees to participate in identifying opportunities?

• A. Tree diagram
• B. Pareto chart
• C. Process map
• D. Affinity diagram

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13
What benefit does Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology provide for a high- volume, low-cost manufacturer?

• A. Reduces store thefts
• B. Eliminates the effects of bullwhip
• C. Eliminates stock out at store level
• D. Reduces number of touch points in pallet handling

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
A company that sells engineered-to-order products is planning implementation of a supplier relationship management system (SRM) for direct materials. Which of the following factors is most likely to make the implementation difficult?

• A. Complexity of the purchasing process
• B. Cost of the application software upgrades
• C. Management of variable lead times
• D. Resistance of material suppliers

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
Which of the following types of lead times is related most closely to a supplier performance measure?

• A. Fulfillment
• B. Replenishment
• C. Overall
• D. Process

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 16
A firm is undertaking a revision of its financial metrics to make them more comprehensive and has decided to use metrics such as return on investment (ROI), return on assets (ROA), and economic value added (EVA). This is an example of utilizing which of the following types of metrics?

• A. Activity based
• B. Stakeholder focused
• C. Financial sustainability
• D. Value chain

Answer: C