An Internal or External Event That Causes a Disruption or Failure

question 133

Multiple Choice

An internal or external event that causes a disruption or failure of supply chain operations is an example of

• A)​Bull-whip effect
• B)​Back-shoring
• C)​Supply chain risk
• D)​Six Sigma quality management

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Definitions:

Investment

Applying resources, typically financial, in order to gain income or profit.

Portfolio

An aggregation of financial instruments such as company shares, debt securities, tangible commodities, available cash, and cash-like resources, including mutual funds and ETFs.

Perfectly Positively Correlated

A situation where two variables move in the same direction at the same rate, represented by a correlation coefficient of +1.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values in a data set are.