CIPS Updated L4M7 Exam Questions and Answers by tudor

Explanation

Safety stock is the stock held as a contingency or insurance against disruption or unexpected de-mand. Holding safety stock reduces the risks of stockouts, when an organisation is unable to meet an order or continue production due to lack of finished goods or input materials.

For single items, an extra investment in inventory (higher levels of safety stock) will always in-crease customer service levels. Conversely, higher service levels imply larger quantities of safety stocks and an increased investment in inventory. (Procurement and Supply Chain Management - 9th Edition)

However, high levels of safety stocks also increase the inventory cost. There must be a balance between inventory costs and customer service. Thus, calculating the should-be safety stock based on a determined service level has long been recommended by many professionals.

Explanation

Master production schedule (MPS) plans items that have “direct” demand, or “independent de-mand.” With independent demand, the demand comes from sales orders, service orders, or fore-casts, and the demand comes directly from customer—or forecasted—requirements. It is the list that provides the timing of the production schedule and shows how much each machine can produce, how many shifts are used, etc.

A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subas-semblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product.

Explanation

Assets in their end of life need to be removed or disposed. Though an organisation can incur some costs in decommissioning or removal of the assets, it may recover costs by reselling the assets. Therefore, sometimes the organisation can gain positive cash flow from removal and disposal of assets. The answer should be "No, the organisation may recover the value of the assets by reselling it".

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Explanation

Temporary warehousing (or 'Very short-term warehousing') is offered in the market where organ-isation makes their requirements for space open online to offers or bids for available space. This appears to be an emerging market and service providers in the UK and USA typically quote a price per pallet per week with some also requiring a 'transaction fee' for movements of each pallet in and out.

Consignment stocking is a facility offered by a supplier to a buyer to allow a delivery of stock to the buyer with payment only after it is used or sold to a customer.

Double-deep pallet racking and carousel-style storage are two tools that leverage space within a warehouse:

Double-deep pallet rack

Carousel style storage