ISM INTE Supply Management Integration Online Training
ISM INTE Online Training
The questions for INTE were last updated at Jul 17,2025.
- Exam Code: INTE
- Exam Name: Supply Management Integration
- Certification Provider: ISM
- Latest update: Jul 17,2025
MNO, Inc. operates within a volatile industry in which unforeseen demand and events often result in unreliable forecasts.
Which of the following is the BEST way for MNO to generate better information about demand and improve forecast accuracy?
- A . Improve fill rate
- B . Increase collaboration with downstream customers
- C . Focus on the organization’s key competencies
- D . Increase inventory quantities
Which of the following refers to a computer-based system that determines the purchase requisition requirements that go into the manufacture of end items, and addresses an organization’s operational, financial and marketing strategies?
- A . Electronic data interchange (EDI)
- B . Material requirements planning (MRP)
- C . Distribution requirements planning (DRP)
- D . Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II)
An organization purchases material from several countries. These materials are assembled into products and sold in several other countries.
This firm’s product specifications will MOST likely reference
- A . International standards
- B . Incoterms® 2010 rules
- C . North American Free Trade Act
- D . exchange rates
A company logistics manager is informed that, because of an emergency, part of the firm’s ocean-going cargo had to be thrown overboard. The losses are to be split 50/50 between the shipper and the freight company.
Which of the following pertains MOST closely to this issue?
- A . Incoterms® 2020 rules
- B . Maritime law
- C . Reverse logistics
- D . International law
A manufacturer is updating its production plans for the remainder of the year. The firm has already obtained revised needs information from its customers, as well as the finance and sales teams.
Which of the following additional information would be MOST useful to the firm?
- A . Upcoming promotions from the marketing team
- B . Recent production issues from the quality team
- C . Product modifications from the design team
- D . Corporate goals from the management team
Which of the following BEST explains why forecast accuracy is important in contracts with suppliers?
- A . It locks in the lowest possible cost to the organization over the life of the contract.
- B . . It allows the buying firm to gauge supplier performance degradation over the life of the contract.
- C . It improves continuity of supply while allowing the supplier to reduce costs over time.
- D . It allows the organization more freedom in procuring supply in the market.
Which of the following ensures that project requirements are being met within project constraints?
- A . Schedule variance
- B . Performance reporting
- C . Scope management
- D . Change management
The supply manager for a semiconductor company receives an emergency phone call from the firm’s factory manager, who states that the manufacturing equipment is down and that a replacement part is needed as soon as possible. The supply manager checks the stock for this part but finds nothing.
In this situation, the supply manager should do which of the following?
- A . Ask the factory manager to perform an equipment failure analysis in order to understand the root cause of the equipment failure
- B . Perform a cost analysis to examine if it is better to expedite the part or wait for the part’s scheduled arrival date
- C . Contact the equipment supplier and ask it to coordinate an expedited delivery of the part as soon as possible
- D . Verify with the warehouse manager if there is an extra spare part in stock that was not correctly registered in the stock database system
A firm sells an average of 2,000 units of snacks from its existing stock while it waits for orders to be delivered. Demand during lead time varies in accordance with a normal distribution.
The firm’s supply manager prepares a presentation to explain the concept of customer service and safety stock levels using the following figure:
What does the shaded area D (in red) represent?
- A . Average demand during lead-time
- B . Service level
- C . Stock-out risk
- D . Re-order point
A supply manager is tasked with assisting internal customers in refining their budgets and planning future sourcing. The supply manager works with the firm’s marketing director on a budget which includes a large direct mail campaign and the revision of promotional materials for several products. Six months later, marketing has nearly exhausted the budget due to cost increases in paper and printing, even though the marketing campaign’s scope has not changed.
Which of the following did the supply manager and marketing director fail to consider?
- A . Ongoing project monitoring
- B . Comparison of actual results with established goals
- C . Alignment of departmental priorities with those of the parent organization
- D . Use of pricing data to forecast trends
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