APICS CLTD Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CLTD Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  Which of the following order picking processes controls the flow of goods to synchronize replenishment, picking, packing, marshaling, and dispatch?

  A. Pick-to-order
  B. Pick-by-line
  C. Zone picking
  D. Wave picking
  D. Wave picking

• Question 12:

  A company desires to improve its cash flow situation by postponing its customs duties payment until the last possible point in the supply chain. The company should consider using which type of warehouse?

  A. Bonded
  B. Contract
  C. Third-party
  D. Government
  A. Bonded

• Question 13:

  Goods are shipped from China to the United States using intermodal transport. Which of the following participants is tasked with liability across the entire journey by a multimodal bill of lading (B/L)?

  A. Shipper
  B. Principal carrier
  C. Cargo insurer
  D. Customs broker
  B. Principal carrier

• Question 14:

  Which of the following activities best describes the functionality of decoupling stock within firms' inventory systems?

  A. Separation of the manufacturing process from order processing
  B. Separation of the manufacturing process from the selling process.
  C. Maintaining inventory to accommodate uncertainty in demand at different geographical positions.
  D. Maintaining inventory at a central location for all stages of the value-creation process.
  C. Maintaining inventory to accommodate uncertainty in demand at different geographical positions.

• Question 15:

  Which of the following modes of transportation is characterized as having the highest fixed cost and lowest variable cost?

  A. Air
  B. Water
  C. Rail
  D. Pipeline
  D. Pipeline

• Question 16:

  Which of the following theories is illustrated in the list below?

  Stage 1: A new product is created to fill a domestic need and produced locally.

  Stage 3: The newly created product is offered to international customers.

  Stage 4: International customers develop expertise and offer the product at a lower cost to the original country.

  A. International product life cycle theory
  B. Porter's cluster theory
  C. Sheffi's logistics cluster theory
  D. Theory of Comparative Advantage
  A. International product life cycle theory

• Question 17:

  Which of the following terms refers to an integrated approach of simultaneously selling to consumers through multiple distribution channels?

  A. Omni-channel
  B. Multi-channel
  C. Business-to-consumer (B2C)
  D. E-commerce
  A. Omni-channel

• Question 18:

  Which of the following items undermines the attempts to simplify transportation pricing?

  A. rate-basis numbers
  B. Class rate
  C. Commodity rate
  D. Incentive rate
  A. rate-basis numbers

• Question 19:

  A corporation's sales forecast has been consistently overstated in the past 6 months. Which of the following measures of forecast error does the corporation need to review to correct the situation?

  A. Mean absolute percent error (MAPE)
  B. Tracking signal
  C. Mean absolute deviation (MAD)
  D. Bias
  C. Mean absolute deviation (MAD)

• Question 20:

  An international organization has a pricing strategy that allows it to sell its product at different prices depending on the country where the product is sold. Which of the following unintended consequences is a result of this strategy?

  A. Counterfeit products in the supply chain
  B. Gray market products in the supply chain
  C. Hostile takeover by a conglomerate
  D. Decrease in profits due to variable revenues
  B. Gray market products in the supply chain