GSCM 520 Final Exam Answers
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FINAL GSCM 520
Question 1.1. (TCOs 1 and 2) Current issues in OSCM do not include (Points : 4) coordinating relationships between organizations. making senior management aware that OSCM can be a competitive weapon. the triple bottom line. managing customer touch points. increasing global supply chain employment.
Question 2.2. (TCO 1) Which of the following is not a characteristic that distinguishes services from goods? (Points : 4) Service jobs are unskilled. A service is intangible.
Services are perishable. Services are heterogeneous. None of the above
(TCO 5) Which of the following are used to describe the degree of error? (Points : 4) Weighted moving average Regression Moving average Forecast as a percent of actual Mean absolute deviation
Question 4.4. (TCO 5) The way to build in greater flexibility in your workers is to do which of the following? (Points : 4) Pay higher wages to motivate a willingness to do a variety to tasks. Provide a broader range of training. Provide a wide variety of technology to augment workers skills. Institute a “pay for skills� program. Use part-time employees with specialized skills as needed.
Question 5.5. (TCO 6) Applicants for the Baldrige Award for total quality management must submit an application of up to 50 pages that details the processes and results of their activities under seven major categories. Which of the following is one of those categories? (Points : 4)
DMAIC Analysis and remember management Standardization Control Inspection protocols
(TCOs 3 and 7) Which of the following is considered a high-contact service operation? (Points : 4) Online brokerage house Internet sales for a department store Physician practice Telephone life insurance sales and service Automobile repair
Question 7.7. (TCOs 7 and 8) Which of the following is a dynamic lot-sizing technique that adds ordering and inventory carrying cost for each trial lot size and divides by the number of units in each lot size, picking the lot size with the lowest unit cost? (Points : 4) Economic order quantity Lot-for-lot Least total cost Least unit cost
Inventory item averaging
Question 8.8. (TCOs 4 and 8) Which of the following is a dynamic lot-sizing technique that calculates the order quantity by comparing the carrying cost and the setup (or ordering) costs for various lot sizes and then selects the lot size in which these are most nearly equal? (Points : 4) Kanban Just-in-time system MRP Least unit cost Least total cost
Question 9.9. (TCO 3) Which of the following is not an improvement-driven reason to outsource? (Points : 4) Improve risk management Increase commitment in a noncore area Shorten cycle time Improve quality and productivity Obtain expertise, skills, and technologies that are otherwise not available
Question 10.10. (TCO 9) What transportation mode has very high initial investment costs but gives a very low cost per mile for products that are highly specialized and require no packaging? (Points : 4)
Highway Rail Water Pipeline Air
Page 2
Question 1.1. (TCO 4) a company has recorded the last 5 days of daily demand on their only product. Those values are 120, 125, 124, 128, and 133. The time from when an order is placed to when it arrives at the company from its vendor is 5 days. Assuming the basic fixed-order quantity inventory model fits this situation and no safety stock is needed, which of the following is the reorder point (R)? (Points : 10) 120 126 630 950 1,200
Question 2.2. (TCO 4) If it takes a supplier 25 days to deliver an order once it has been placed and the standard deviation of daily demand is 20, which of the following is the standard deviation of usage during lead time? (Points : 10) 50 100 400 1,000 1,600
Question 3.3. (TCOs 3, 4, and 5) A company wants to forecast demand using the simple moving average. If the company uses three prior yearly sales values (i.e., year 2011 = 130, year 2012 = 110, and year 2013 =160), which of the following is the simple moving average forecast for year 2014? (Points : 10) 100.5 122.5 133.3 135.6 139.3
Question 4.4. (TCO 5) If a firm produced a standard item with relatively stable demand, the smoothing constant alpha (reaction rate to differences) used in an exponential smoothing forecasting model would tend to be in which of the following ranges? (Points : 10)
5% to 10% 20% to 50% 20% to 80% 60% to 120% 90% to 100%
Question 5.5. (TCO 2) Various financial data for SunPath Manufacturing for 2012 and 2013 follow. What is the percentage change in the multifactor labor and raw materials productivity measure for SunPath between 2012 and 2013?
2012
2013
Output:
Sales:
$300,000
$330,000
Inputs:
Labor:
$40,000
$43,000
Raw Materials:
$45,000
$51,000
Energy:
$10,000
$9,000
Capital Employed:
$250,000
$262,000
Other
$2,000
$6,000
(Points : 10) -9.22
2.33 -0.53 -2.88 10.39
Question 6.6. (TCO 5) A company wants to forecast demand using the weighted moving average. If the company uses two prior yearly sales values (i.e., year 2012 = 110 and year 2013 = 130), and we want to weight year 2012 at 10% and year 2013 at 90%, which of the following is the weighted moving average forecast for year 2014? (Points : 10) 120 128 133 138 142
Question 7.7. (TCO 5) If demand for product “A” were forecast at 1,000,000 units for the coming year and your factory has one machine capable of producing 75,000 units per month, how much of product “A” might you plan to acquire through outsourcing? (Points : 10) 500 10,000 100,000
200,000 600
Question 8.8. (TCO 3) You have been called in as a consultant to set up a Kanban control system. The first thing you do is to determine the number of Kanban card sets needed. Your research shows that the expected demand during lead time for a particular component is 1,200 per hour. You estimate the safety stock should be set at 5% of the demand during lead time. The tote trays used as containers can hold two units of stock and the lead time to replenish an order is 10 hours. Which of the following is the number of Kanban card sets necessary to support this situation? (Points : 10) 5,000 5,500 6,300 6,500 7,000
Question 9.9. (TCO 7) In a work center, machine A has a 10-minute setup time per batch and a 2 minute per unit run time. Machine B performs the identical function but has a setup time of 30 minutes and a 1-minute run time per unit. The work center makes products in batches ranging from one unit to 100 units. Assuming capacity is not a limitation on either machine, on which batches should machine B be used? (Points : 10) All batches should be run on machine B. Batches of more than 20 units should be run on machine B. Batches of fewer than 80 units should be run on machine B.
Batches with up to 50 units should be run on machine B
. No batches should be run on machine B.
Question 10.10. (TCO 8) If annual demand is 6,125 units, annual holding cost is $5 per unit, and setup cost per order is $50, which of the following is the EOQ lot size? (Points : 10) 350 247 23 185 78
Page 3: 1. Describe a specific example of the trade-offs between any two of the competitive dimensions. (Points : 30) Competitive dimensions: – Cost of price – Quality – Delivery speed – Delivery reliability – Coping with changes in demand
– Flexibility and New-product introduction speed – Other product-specific criteria A specific example of the trade-offs between any two of the competitive dimensions: Southwest Operations- low cost The trade-offs with low cost is no meals, no assigned seats, no interline baggage checking, no premium classes of service. It means that when Southwest lowers the cost, the quality is the trade-offs. www.prism.gatech.edu
2. RspGF=”font-family:’Arial’;font-size:10pt;”(TCOs 3, 5, and 6) What is the difference between the concepts of design quality and conformance quality? (Points : 30) Design quality is the inherent value of the product in the marketplace. It refers to the specifications of quality (performance,, features, reliability, serviceability, aesthetics, perceived quality) which are brought up from the product design process. In contrast, conformance quality is the degree to which the product or service design specifications are met. The activities involved in achieving conformance are of a tactical, day-to-day nature.
3. RspGF=”font-family:’Arial’;font-size:10pt;”(TCOs 4, 6, and 7) Distinguish between dependent and independent demand. How are these demands treated differently? (Points : 30) Independent demand is the demands for various items which are unrelated to each other. In other words, independent is demand for a finished product such as a computer, a bicycle. On the other hand, dependent demand is demand for component parts, or a need for an item is directly related to the need for some other items such as the microchips in a computer, or the wheels of a bicycle. Dependent demand is simply computed, whereas independent demand is uncertain, extra units need to be stored.