CIPS Level 4 Supplier Relationships L4M6 Dumps – Valid L4M6 Exam Preparation Materials Online

1. When developing a supplier partnership, a buyer can take either a strategic or reactive approach .

What would be a reason for a reactive approach?

2. What is a disadvantage of including qualitative KPIs into a contract?

3. In Public Sector procurement a PIN is sent out to inform suppliers of an upcoming tender opportunity .

What does PIN stand for?

4. Brian Air is a company that is trying to break into the air transport market .

Which of the following could be barriers to entry for Brian Air? Select THREE

5. Which of the following documents would you expect a supplier to submit as part of a Request for Proposal? Select THREE

6. Mendelow’s Stakeholder Matrix categorises stakeholders into four groups and provides insight into how these stakeholders should be managed .

What is a limitation to using this Matrix to categorise stakeholders?

7. Which of the following are possible drivers for partnership sourcing? Select THREE.

8. A doctor's surgery requires a complex database system to manage all of its patients data, which is highly sensitive. The system also needs to link to other departments of the health service such as physiotherapy and intensive care. The Manager of the surgery is considering outsourcing the management of the database to an IT company .

What is the Manager's main motivation for doing this?

9. What is the correct order of the stages of team development?

10. Which of the following statements are true of a market place which is considered a 'perfect competition'? Select TWO.

11. Beyond Say is a manufacturer of diamond rings. It sources a lot of different parts to create its products including diamonds, gold, cardboard boxes for the rings to go in, as well as stationary and copier paper for the offices. Although it doesn't buy many diamonds, these represent a large part of Beyond Say's spend .

Which category of spend would diamonds represent?

12. Early Supplier Involvement can be described as a collaborative relationship between a buyer and a supplier to develop a new project. Handfield’s model describes four different levels of supplier involvement ranging from none to ‘black box’ (which is when the design is primarily driven by the supplier .

What other level features on this model?

13. Grey Stone Memorial Hospital is a private medical facility which has an idea for a vaccine to a deadly disease, but does not have the capacity to make the vaccine itself. It is

considering partnering with a well-known pharmaceutical company in order to bring the vaccine to market .

What is the biggest risk to Grey Stone?

14. Danny is procuring a new IT software, which he doesn’t know much about. He has done a bit of research on the internet but is still unsure how much he can expect to pay .

What should be Danny’s next step?

15. According to Mendelow, there are four ways stakeholders can be managed, depending on the amount of power they have, and how interested they are in your project .

What are these four categories?

16. In public sector procurement, tenders are advertised with CPV codes, which provide a reference to describe the product or service being tendered .

What does CPV stand for?

17. Which of the following would you use to qualify new suppliers? Select THREE.

18. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) include items such as copywrite and trademarks. A buyer is considering entering into a partnership with their supplier to create a new product which will be released in two years’ time. Should IPR be included into a contract between partners?

19. Which of the following are advantages for the buyer of entering into a partnership? Select

TWO.

20. David is sourcing a new cleaning contract as he is not impressed with his current cleaning company’s performance. He believes that his current supplier has been overcharging him, and due to budget cuts, he is keen to secure a lower price than what he is paying now. His Manager has suggested using an e-auction as the procurement method.

Is this the correct way forward?

21. A competitive advantage can be gained by doing what?

22. Which of the following are considered ‘wastes’ which can be removed from a business? Select THREE.

23. Agile Cars Ltd is creating a ‘lean’ business model which involves receiving deliveries of components only when they are required .

Which of the following ‘wastes’ is being removed from the business?

24. Gabriel is a procurement manager who wishes to explore a new avenue to procure products for his company. His manager has told him that he should invite internal stakeholders to a meeting to get their feedback. Who should Gabriel invite? Select THREE.

25. The Queen Victoria is a traditional British pub which serves a range of alcoholic beverages. It has a partnership relationship with a local brewery which supplies several types of beer and cider. Logistics is a key concern for the Queen Victoria as deliveries must be made when there is room in the cellar to store the barrels of beer and cider. In what ways could the logistics risk be reduced?

26. One of the fist stages of designing a Partnership is to come up with joint KPIs. These

should be:

27. Which of the following are not stages of team development? Select TWO.

28. Varying levels of commitment is one reason why many partnerships fail .

Why is this?

29. The CEO of a business has asked his procurement manager to source new machinery for the factory. This machinery will help create a new line of products which will give the company a competitive edge. The CEO is heavily invested in this procurement activity as profits have been lower than expected this year and this new line of products could help increase profitability .

How should the procurement manager include the CEO in the procurement activity?

30. In the public sector, there are many sources of information that a buyer can use to identify a suitable supplier .

Which of the following could be used? Select THREE

31. The Kraljic Model is most useful for which aspect of procurement?

32. The Public Sector in the UK is unable to enter into formal partnership relationships with any supplier. Is this statement TRUE?

33. Which of the following is an advantage for the suppler of entering into a partnership with a buyer?

34. What is value mapping?

35. Which of the following are valid strategies for dealing with conflict? Select THREE

36. Harry runs a hotel and has recently decided to contract an external supplier to provide the cleaning of the rooms .

What is a disadvantage of doing this?

37. Which of the following macro-environmental factors can affect supply chains?

38. Polly Manufacturing is a company which manufactures bicycle parts. It has several factories around the country and is one of the leading suppliers of wheels, bells and pedals.

Which of the following is Polly Manufacturing likely to outsource? Select TWO options.

39. Which of the following factors would you use to analyse the macro-environment? Select THREE.

40. Which of the following are primary activities, according to Porter's Value Chain? Select THREE.