SCL Ch 4 Test Questions & Answers 2024/2025
T/F: The efficiency and effectiveness of a logistics/supply chain operation are constrained by the location of plants and warehouses in its overall network. - ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: Logistics facilities and their locations are relatively vari...
T/F: The efficiency and effectiveness of a logistics/supply chain operation are constrained by the location
of plants and warehouses in its overall network. - ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: Logistics facilities and their locations are relatively variable and easily modified in the short term. -
ANSWERSFalse
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T/F: Corporate reengineering is often a reason for examining the firm's current logistics/supply chain
network. - ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: Labor-intensive industries place significant emphasis on the availability and cost of labor. -
ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: The quality of life locational determinant is most important to companies that must attract and
retain an unskilled, static work force. - ANSWERSFalse
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T/F: Facilities may sometimes be located where senior officers prefer. - ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: The grid technique determines the highest cost facility location in an area. - ANSWERSFalse
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T/F: The grid technique will evaluate all transportation rates equally. - ANSWERSFalse
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T/F: In a commercial zone, the same transportation rate is applied from an origin to any point in the
zone. - ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: One impact that the transit privilege has on facility location is that intermediate locations can be
optimum. - ANSWERSTrue
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T/F: A channel of distribution is controlled by the marketing department, which selects the physical
structures and intermediaries through which the product(s) flow. - ANSWERSFalse
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In the short run, the firm's network is _____ while in the long run it is _____.
a. fixed; variable
b. adoptable; reversible
c. variable; reversible
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