Micro Link Information Technology & Business College

Postgraduate Program
Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Part-1

Dear readers/ students, in order to check your understanding of the course Supply Chain
Management (SCM), you are expected to answer the following questions correctly and submit your
answer accordingly through Online in softcopy. Perform each questions according to their
instructions.

Type of Assessment: Assignment-1

Part-I- True or False Item Questions

Instruction:
Read the Questions Carefully and if the Statement is Correct Write “True” Otherwise False.

1. Supply chain profitability is the sum of the revenue generated from the customer and the total
cost incurred across all stages of the supply chain.
2. Successful supply chains manage flows of product, information, and funds to provide a high
level of product availability to the customer while keeping costs low.
3. Supply chain decisions may be characterized as strategic (design), planning, or operational,
depending on the time period during which they apply.
4. Operational decisions of a supply chain decisions span from months to years and include
sequencing production and filling specific orders.
5. A push/pull view of a supply chain characterizes processes based on their timing relative to
that of a customer order.
6. All supply chain processes can be classified into three macro processes based on whether
they are at the customer or supplier interface or are internal to the firm.
7. Strategic fit requires that all functions within a firm and stages in the supply chain targets
different goals, one that is inconsistent with customer needs.

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 8. The key to strategic fit is ensuring that supply chain responsiveness is consistent with
customer needs, supply capabilities, and the resulting implied uncertainty.
9. When the scope of a strategic fit is narrow, individual functions try to optimize their
performance based on their own goals. This practice often results in conflicting actions that
reduce the supply chain surplus.
10. The major drivers of supply chain performance are facilities, inventory, transportation,
information, sourcing, and pricing.
11. Increasing product variety, decreasing product life cycles, demanding customers, and global
competition all make creating supply chain strategies successfulness easier.

Part-II- Discussion Questions

Instruction:
Write the correct answer in a short and precise ways for the following questions

1. What is the supply chain and the supply chain management means?
2. Discuss the goal of a supply chain and explain the impact of supply chain decisions on the
success of a firm.
3. Identify the three key supply chain decision phases and explain the significance of each one.
4. Describe the cycle and push/pull views of a supply chain.
5. Classify the supply chain macro processes in a firm.
6. In what way do supply chain flows affect the success or failure of a firm like Amazon? List
two supply chain decisions that have a significant impact on supply chain profitability.
7. Explain why achieving strategic fit is critical to a company's overall success.
8. Describe how a company achieves strategic fit between its supply chain strategy and its
competitive strategy.
9. Discuss the importance of expanding the scope of strategic fit across the supply chain.
10. Identify the major drivers of supply chain performance.
11. Discuss the role of each driver in creating strategic fit between the supply chain strategy and
the competitive strategy.
12. Describe the major obstacles that must be overcome to manage a supply chain successfully.