APICS CPIM Exam Questions
Certified in Production and Inventory Management (Page 4 )

Updated On: 21-Feb-2026

Life cycle approach for identifying order winners and qualifiers is complicated in that:

  1. The duration of life cycle will be very different for different products.
  2. Customer needs change work frequently
  3. Life cycle phase are difficult to understand
  4. Not a single requirement applies to all these of life cycle

Answer(s): A



Which one of the following is a basic strategy to achieve the level of shortest lead time?

  1. Engineer-to-order
  2. Assemble-to-order
  3. Make-to-stock
  4. None of these

Answer(s): D



This is the situation of lead time strategy in case of:

  1. Engineer-to-order
  2. Make-to-stock
  3. Make-to-order
  4. None of these

Answer(s): A



Which one of following is not an important factor in supply chain?

  1. The supply chain includes all activities and processes to supply a product or service to a final customer
  2. Any number of companies can be linked in the supply chain
  3. product or services usually flow from customer to supplier and design and demand information usually flows from customer to supplier. Rarely is this not so.
  4. A customer can be a supplier to another customer so the total chain can have a number of supplier customer relationships.

Answer(s): C



With the explosive growth in just-in-time (JIT) concepts, the supplier-customer partnership concept grew as a result many changes in their relationships came including:

  1. Mutual analysis for cost reduction
  2. Mutual product design
  3. Need for rapid delivery
  4. Speed of accurate information flow

Answer(s): D






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