Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the
statement or answers the question.
|
|
|
1.
|
What does the abbreviation ECR stand
for?
a. | Efficient Consumer
Reliability | b. | Early Consumer
Reaction | c. | Early Consumer Response | d. | Efficient Consumer Reaction | e. | Efficient Consumer Response |
|
|
|
2.
|
Systems that coordinate the flow of goods among
manufacturers, transporters, wholesalers and retailers with the help of an integrated IT system are
known as
a. | Efficient Consumer Reaction | b. | Efficient Consumer Reliability | c. | Early Consumer Reaction | d. | Early Consumer
Response | e. | Efficient Consumer Response
systems |
|
|
|
3.
|
The level of customer service in marketing
logistics is generally measured as
a. | the percentage of properly delivered
goods. | b. | the percentage of properly stored goods in a
pre-specified period of time. | c. | the percentage of
properly stored goods. | d. | the percentage of
properly produced goods in a pre-specified period of time. |
|
|
|
4.
|
The physical distribution of a company’s
products that is executed through transportation devices, warehouses and storage capacities owned by
the company, is called
a. | dependent marketing
logistics. | b. | intra marketing
logistics. | c. | disintegrated
marketing logistics. | d. | integrated
marketing logistics. | e. | company bound
marketing logistics. |
|
|
|
5.
|
An agent serving as for exporters and importers of
goods, performing two essential functions: facilitating the movement of products through customs and
handling the documentation accompanying international shipments is called a
a. | custom broker. | b. | customhouse agent. | c. | customhouse
broker. | d. | custom. | e. | import agent. |
|
|
|
6.
|
If an international manufacturer and its
intermediaries are ready to participate in a ____, POS-scanning data can be used to achieve
just-in-time production and delivery, decreasing inventory level, transportation and
handling.
a. | real-time information system | b. | POS information system | c. | scanning data
system | d. | up-date information system | e. | real-data system |
|
|
|
7.
|
UN/EDIFACT is the abbreviation for
a. | United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for All
Commercial Tariffs. | b. | United Nations
Electronic Data on Industry, Administration, Commerce and Transport. | c. | United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and
Transport. | d. | United Nations
Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transit. | e. | United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for the Assignation of Credit
Transfers. |
|
|
|
8.
|
Calls for restrictions on truck shipping in the
European Union – a result of pollution, congestion and noise – have led to the
development of mixed transportation modes using ______ or special rail containers.
a. | standard trucks | b. | dumpers | c. | roll-on/roll-off
railroad cars | d. | roll-in/roll-off
railroad cars | e. | roll-on/roll-out
railroad cars |
|
|
|
9.
|
FIATA stands for
a. | International Federation of Freight
Forwarders | b. | International
Federation of Flight Forwarders | c. | International
Freight and Flight Organizations | d. | International
Federation of Air Transport Associations | e. | International
Federation of Freight Forwarding Organizations |
|
|
|
10.
|
‘FCT’ is the abbreviation for
‘forwarder’s certificate of’
a. | transfer. | b. | transport. | c. | train
transport. | d. | transverse. | e. | transit. |
|
|
|
11.
|
A document needed for specifying the applicable
tariff, specifying the country where the product has mainly been manufactured, is
called
a. | Certificate of origin. | b. | Confirmation of origin. | c. | Certificate of
producing country. | d. | Confirmation of
producing country. | e. | Certificate of
‘made in’. |
|
|
|
12.
|
Only one of the following is an international
transportation regulation. Which one?
a. | CNM (Convention
Nationale Concernant le Transport des Marchandises par Chemin de Fer) | b. | CMA (Convention Internationale Concernant
le Transport des Marchandises par Avion) | c. | CIM (Convention Internationale Concernant le Transport des Marchandises par Chemin
de Fer) | d. | CMB (Convention
Internationale Concernant le Transport des Marchandises par Bateau) | e. | CIF (Cost Insurance Freight
Document) |
|
|
|
13.
|
‘Incoterms’ is the abbreviation
for
a. | Internal commercial terms | b. | International commercial terms | c. | Incorporated terms | d. | International
commerce terms | e. | International
cooperation terms |
|
|
|
14.
|
Which one of the following is NOT an
Incoterm?
a. | FCA | b. | CFR | c. | CPT | d. | DDP | e. | DUF |
|
|
|
15.
|
Companies operating internationally in more than 80
countries handle their international orders through an electronic data interchange system
called
a. | ELEDIS | b. | EDIS | c. | ELDAS | d. | EANCOM | e. | EDINSY |
|