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Exam CBAP topic 1 question 393 discussion

Actual exam question from IIBA's CBAP
Question #: 393
Topic #: 1
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A major manufacturer of popular beverages has appointed a local distributor to serve a specific territory. The demand for the beverages has a pronounced seasonal pattern. The distributor performs well overall, but is repeatedly unable to keep up with fulfilling many customer orders during peak demand periods. The distributor's current delivery capability is stretched to deliver 60 tons of merchandise per day whereas the season's peak demand periods need a daily delivery capability of up to 100 tons.
The distributor is under pressure to fully meet the year-round market demand in order to stay in business. The distributor's management wants to identify and consider more cost-effective options as resorting to adding more trucks and drivers would not be economically feasible.
A business analyst (BA) has spent several days observing and measuring the warehouse activities to understand the situation and to gain insights into possible solutions. The delivery workflow is a four-step process: (1) picking the orders and assembling them on trays, (2) bringing the trays to the loading bay, (3) loading the orders into trucks, and (4) delivering the orders to customers. As the following table illustrates, overall performance depends is dependent on five major resources: (1) the workers who pick the orders and load them into trucks, (2) the tallyers who check the orders, (3) the drivers, (4) the trucks, and (5) eight loading bays (LBs).

What is the company's primary business objective in this scenario?

  • A. Make more profit
  • B. Defeat competitors
  • C. Satisfy the customer
  • D. Stabilize its performance
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

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Rabbitsfoot
1 month ago
Selected Answer: C
C. Satisfy the customer In this scenario, the primary business objective is to satisfy the customer by meeting the year-round market demand for beverages. The company's distributor is struggling to fulfill customer orders during peak demand periods, indicating a gap in meeting customer needs.
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xiaoyangwu
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: C
When Customer need more beverages, means it is peak time. When customer don't have need, means it is non-peak time.
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darity
1 year ago
Selected Answer: C
The answer is C
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OlivierPaudex
2 years, 1 month ago
Answer C Looking at the Total capacity, it is always more than 60 tons/day, which means that the company try to satisfy the manufacturer.
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saeedddddd
2 years, 5 months ago
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NickMane
2 years, 7 months ago
I see this as distributor wants to Stabilize its performance do satisfy demand during peak-time, so C for me seem ok
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cc2104
2 years, 8 months ago
Ans C The question says ""A major manufacturer of popular beverages has appointed a local distributor to serve a specific territory" It means that the distributor should meet the customer's demand
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