Quizific | Logistics and Supply Chain Management Quiz (Product, Describes, Quality)

Which of the following phrases best describes the concept of coordinating principles?

Authority, responsibility, accountability, and power.

Design of your organization.

Formal relationships

Staffing.

When you are interested in a new facility, what action should you take first?

Make a site visit.

Have a discussion with a state's business assistance center.

Forecast customer demand.

Perform a structural analysis of your intended facility.

Which of the following describes why the project closure phase is not done?

Team members usually cannot deal with the impending emotional detachment from the project team.

The project is poorly conceived and no one knows when it is really done.

Team members usually have the luxury of remaining with the project until completion

Many projects do not benefit from having a closure activity.

What is needed to calculate sigma?

Defect, unit, and opportunity.

Yield, process, and defect.

Process, opportunity, and defect.

Yield, unit, and opportunity.

Integrated service providers (ISP) is

a type of consolidation, combine small shipments from different shippers going to the same area.

companies that provide a range of logistics services.

management of the movement and storage of materials at lowest cost while still meeting customers' requirements.

combines break bulk and consolidation warehouse activities.

Resources such as labor materials and energy are known as ___ in the transformation process

outputs

intangibles

factors of production

inputs

A series of quality assurance standards designed to ensure consistent product quality under many conditions is known as

statistical process control.

total quality standards.

total quality management.

ISO 9000.

The raw materials, components, completed or partially completed products, and pieces of equipment a firm uses are often referred to as

Inventory

order quantities.

production.

outputs.

In a large company, the department charged with determining the actual processes to be used in turning inputs to outputs is

marketing research.

engineering.

operations

product planning.

Which of the following brings all resources required to create a product to a central location?

fixed-position layout

process layout

product layout

continuous layout