Virtual Laboratory for Simulation and Gaming

Organisational Procurement

Quiz

Choose the appropriate answers from the given alternatives :

1) What are the two prime objectives in an organisational procurement scenario?

  Maximize service level, minimize cost

  Minimize lead time, lessen inventory costs

  Minimize service level, increase costs

2) Newsvendor model is:

  A multi period probabilistic model

  A single period probabilistic model

  A single period deterministic model

3) The Service Level is basically:

 Probability of Stockout

  Service Factor

 Shelf Availability

4) For a public hospital what objective would be prime ??

  Maximize service level

 Minimize cost

 Minimize service level

5) For a local stationery shop what objective would be prime ?

  Maximize service level

 Minimize cost

 Minimize service level

6) What among these is not a parameter a retailer considers when procuring from a supplier ?

  Lead time

 Standard deviation

 Supply capacity

7) Which among these is not an input parameter for the simulation?

 Total budget

 Mean demand

 None of these

8) Which service would not have the prime objective as optimizing service level

 Fire brigade

 Hospitals

 E-retailers

9) Organisational procurement problem resembles the

 Dual sourcing newsvendor model

 Fixed demand model

 None of the above

10) Which service would have the prime objective as optimizing cost

 Stationery shops

 Emergency services

 Defense