b. freight plus mail

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1. Cargo is:

• Freight
• freight plus mail

2. The downstream end of a supply chain is:

• supplier end
• customer end

3. In the ‘unionist perspective’:

• logistics is a part of SCM
• SCM is a part of logistics

4. In the ‘traditionalist’ perspective:

• logistics is a part of SCM
• SCM is a part of logistics

• Concerning the difference between logistics and SCM, which of the following

perspectives is most popular:

Re-labelling Traditionalist Unionist Intersectionist

6. A low value, high volume shipment has:

• a high transport cost penalty
• a low transport cost penalty

7. A supply chain is best understood as:

• a linear chain
• a multidimensional network

• Effective transport deregulation typically aims to achieve (at least in theory):
• cost reduction
• service improvement
• both

9. Ethnocentricity involves:

• adopting the perspective only of the home country where its headquarters are

located

• adopting the host country perspective
• the company not adopting any particular country perspective(s)

10. In the context of global logistics the acronym ‘TNC’ stands for:

• transnational corporation
• transnational competence

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11. Which type of company portrays more of a global identity:

• a transnational corporation
• a multinational company

12. Offshoring can be defined as:

• the transfer of specific processes to lower cost locations in other countries
• the transfer to a third party of the management and delivery of a process

previously performed by the company itself

13. Geocentricity involves:

• adopting the perspective only of the home country where its headquarters are

located

• adopting the host country perspective
• the company not adopting any one particular country perspective(s)

14. Craft production allows:

• high output volume with low output variety
• high output variety with low output volume

15. Another name for postponement is:

• delayed product design
• delayed product differentiation

16. An agile supply chain strategy works best with:

• short lead time, unpredictable demand
• short lead time, predictable demand

• Another term used to describe the ‘functional’ nature of many organisations is:
• silo
• corporate

18. A leagile supply chain strategy works best with:

• long lead time, predictable demand
• long lead time, unpredictable demand

19. The consignee is:

• the company or individual who sends the consignment
• the company or individual who actually receives the shipment

20. The term NVOCC is an acronym for:

• non-vessel-owning common carrier
• non-vessel-operating common carrier

21. The term NVOCC:

• is associated with the activity known as groupage
• is not associated with the activity known as groupage

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• How many groups of incoterms are there?
• Two
• Three
• Four

• Which of the following is correct?
• sourcing = procurement + purchasing
• procurement = sourcing + purchasing

24. The acronym ‘OEM’ stands for:

• original electronics manufacturing
• original equipment manufacturer

• A higher score on the environmental separation index between an outsourcer and an

outsourcee indicates:

• large differences in work practices, culture and perceptions between an

outsourcer and an outsourcee

• small differences in work practices, culture and perceptions between an

outsourcer and an outsourcee

• Which of the following statements is correct?
• In order to be an order winner a factor must first be an order qualifier
• In order to be an order qualifier a factor must first be an order winner

• Very slow moving items of inventory are likely to be classified in an ABC inventory

classification system as:

• ‘A’ items
• ‘B’ items
• ‘C’ items

28. The square root rule is concerned with:

• deciding how much inventory to re-order
• reducing total system inventory by reducing the number of locations within

which inventory is held

• transit inventory
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