Pass the CIPS CIPS Level 4 Diploma in Procurement and Supply L4M6 Questions and answers with CertsForce

Poor communication leads to misunderstandings, unmet expectations, and conflict, undermining partnerships. CIPS stresses the importance of transparent and regular communication to ensure alignment and success.

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partnerships are always win: win p.7

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The correct answer is ‘No- good levels of communication can exist in other types of relationships’. The study guide makes a point that not all good buyer: supplier relationships are partnerships. In fact 70% on supplier relationships will not be partnerships (according to Lambert who is quoted on p.131)

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The correct answer is ‘accommodating’. This QUESTION NO: is based on the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict model on p.87. This comes up quite a bit in the exam. It is comprised of 5 techniques for dealing with conflict; competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating. In this instance, the supplier should have a high degree of co-cooperativeness and a low degree of assertiveness as the long-term relationship is very important- more important than the outcome of the disputed invoice.

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:

Joint venturesandstrategic alliancesare common forms of partnerships between companies:

Joint Venture:A business arrangement where two or more parties agree to pool their resources for a specific task, creating a new entity.

Strategic Alliance:An agreement between companies to pursue objectives while remaining independent organizations.

"Sole trader," "limited company," and "public limited company" refer to business structures, not partnership arrangements.

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The correct answer is ‘A situation when the apparent output from collaboration is considerably less than expected’. This is verbatim the definition given in the study guide on p.166 A synergy is the concept that the value and performance of two companies combined will be greater than the sum of the separate individual parts.

Partnership sourcing improves efficiency through cost reduction and ensures continuity of supply by fostering long-term, collaborative relationships with key suppliers, as highlighted in CIPS guidelines.

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The correct answer is ‘Building better relationships with primary stakeholders’. This is a direct quote from the start of chapter 2.2: ‘building better relationships with primary stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers and communities could lead to increased shareholder wealth by developing a competitive advantage’. The other three options wouldn’t give you a competitive advantage; increasing prices would do the opposite, engaging in market research won’t give you a competitive advantage unless you do something with that research such as implement a change to your business, and completing formal tenders for everything would be a waste of time and resources- there’s no need to tender for low value, low risk items. See p.80

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The Kraljic model "plays a key part in category management" p.19 of the textbook. Category Management = the spend in an organisation, broken down into categories of related products (e.g. IT, facilities management, marketing). Each of these categories could be plotted on the Kraljic Matrix.

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:

In the context of portfolio analysis, particularly using the Kraljic Matrix, procurement items are categorized based on their profit impact and supply risk.Strategic criticalitems are those with high profit impact and high supply risk. These items are vital to the organization's operations and often have limited suppliers, making them critical to secure.

For such items, developing apartnership relationshipis appropriate. This involves close collaboration, mutual trust, and long-term commitment between the buyer and supplier to ensure reliability, innovation, and continuous improvement.