APICS APICS Certifications CSCP Questions & Answers

• Question 751:

  Which of the following activities is the most appropriate use of an advanced planning and scheduling system?

  A. Selecting the target market for a product

  B. Optimizing transportation routes

  C. Creating a daily demand forecast

  D. Identifying constraints within a facility

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 752:

  A company that manufactures complex mechanical assemblies to customer order and ships them directly to the customer is implementing manufacturing cells. The benefit most likely to result from this effort is a reduction in the:

  A. number of component shortages.

  B. production planning horizon.

  C. time to fill customer orders.

  D. response time to a request for quote.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 753:

  A juice manufacturer wants to determine the time required to convert a dollar spent on materials into a dollar received in sales. Which of the following metrics would be most appropriate to make this determination?

  A. Activity-based costing

  B. Inventory carrying cost

  C. Cash-to-cash cycle time

  D. Average financial turnover

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 754:

  Which of the following conditions are most indicative of a company that is effectively managing its cash?

  A. Low accounts receivable, low inventory, high accounts payable

  B. High accounts receivable, low inventory, high accounts payable

  C. Low accounts receivable , high inventory, low accounts payable

  D. High accounts receivable, high inventory, low accounts payable

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 755:

  The implementation of major enterprise-wide changes to eliminate or significantly reduce waste is related to which of the following concepts?

  A. Kaizen

  B. Kanban

  C. Six Sigma

  D. Lean

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 756:

  An advanced planning system differs primarily from enterprise resources planning by: A. optimizing operations scheduling.

  B. translating plans into action.

  C. concentrating on production.

  D. linking to the transportation management system.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 757:

  A master production schedule serves a company best by functioning as a:

  A. dispatch list.

  B. forecast system buffer.

  C. priority planning tool.

  D. supplier scheduling system.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 758:

  Which of the following processes ensures that functional plans are consistent?

  A. Strategic planning

  B. Sales and operations planning

  C. Project planning

  D. Master scheduling

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 759:

  A supplier disputes a low rating generated by a company's enterprise resources planning (ERP) system. Which of the following actions by the purchasing agent is most appropriate?

  A. Advise the ERP information technology manager that there is a flaw in the rating system.

  B. Scrap the vendor rating system until the company can figure out what is wrong.

  C. Compare the vendor and company detail records, and interview company employees who handled the data.

  D. Tell the supplier that, regardless of the disputed claims, the supplier must improve performance.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 760:

  On-time delivery performance in the supply chain can best be improved by aligning required capacity with what type of capacity?

  A. Demonstrated

  B. Rated

  C. Budgeted

  D. Theoretical

  Correct Answer: A