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Question 38 2 pts The benefits a distributor can accrue from making appropriate (i.e., good) dock-level decisions include which of the following: o An increase in the number of vehicles the distibutor uses O An increase in a distributorうs transportation expenses. O An increase in capital investment of equipment O An improvement and more responsive customer service. O All of the above are considered benefits in good dock-level decisions. Question 46 2 pts As the new profit center manager, you switch carriers to a more expensive, but quicker, more responsive transportation carrier. You justify this because when using the approach your overall inventory and warehouse savings more than offset the increase in transportation costs. Di Just in time O economic order quantity D total cost Less-than-truckload Question 48 2 pts A distribution center (DC) that serves a regional market by consolidating large volumes of inventory and providing stock to smaller regional warehouses that service customers is referred adistribution system. ○ hub-and-spoke O center-and-disburse O Just-in-time O Performance cycle 0 Line-fill cycle | Question 49 2 pts Inventory carrying costs include which of the following: Out-bound freight costs ○ Inventory financing costs Storage and insurance costs O Both b and c above D None of the above Question 12 2 pts To reduce their total inventory needs, such that they assign different customer service level requirements to their inventory on the basis of factors such as sales, profits, and/or the level in which different inventory SKU's turn each year, the company should perform which type of analysis? JIT O EOQ ABC d ITO

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Answer38- All of the above are considered benefits in good dock level decisions.

Answer 46- total cost.

Answer 48- performance cycle.

Answer 49- both b&c above.

Answer 12- EOQ(economic order quantity). As The economic order quantity is the optimum quantity of goods to be purchased at one time in order to minimize the annual total costs of ordering and carrying or holding items in inventory. EOQ is also referred to as the optimum lot size.