Exam Name: | Supply Management Integration | ||
Exam Code: | INTE Dumps | ||
Vendor: | ISM | Certification: | CPSM |
Questions: | 167 Q&A's | Shared By: | layan |
A supply manager is part of a ramp-up team for a new product line. The supply manager's role will include finding and evaluating new sources and obtaining commitments to support the volume projected by marketing. In recent campaigns, sales forecasts have been considerably higher than actual demand, and the supply manager wants to minimize the risk of such a situation happening again. Which of the following arguments made by the supply manager will MOST likely influence the team to re-examine product launch expectations?
An organization has a forecast for June of 125 units. However, 140 units actually sell. What is the exponential smoothing forecast for July if the alpha is 0.2?
Over the past 90 days, a buying company's manufacturing engineers have reported an increase in the number of defective parts received from a key supplier. The engineers report that there are three different types of defects occurring, and that they are all being discovered during production. The supplier states that it does not have enough resources to assess the root cause of the three types of defects all at one time. Which of the following should the buying firm do in this instance?
A large retailer and one of its suppliers establish a process to combine intelligence from both organizations in order to improve product availability while reducing inventory, transportation, and logistics costs. This process is known as which of the following?