Exam 9: Information Systems and Supply Chain Management

Which benefits does efficient supply chain management provide retailers concerning product availability?

In the United States,Macy's sells a variety of winter coats throughout the country focusing delivery in the northern tiers first and ending the season rollouts in the south much like the way the cold weather migrates.This management of the winter products can best be described as:

Why are retailers considered the most important part of the supply chain?

The process where vendors ship the merchandise prepackaged to the distribution centre in the quantities required for each store and then that merchandise is shipped to stores as soon as it is received is called ________________.

Why have some vendors and retailers chosen not to adopt RFID tagging?

Purchase data collected at the point of sale goes into a huge database that is known as a(n)___________________.

Which of the following is an advantage of using distribution centres over direct store delivery?

__________________________ usually provide a full range of services including tracking inland transportation,preparing shipping and export documents,warehousing,booking cargo space,negotiating freight charges,consolidating freight,insuring cargo,and filing insurance claims.

Many retailers now require vendors to provide notification of deliveries before they take place.A(n)_______________________________ is an electronic document received by the retailer's computer from a supplier in advance of a shipment.

Which of the following terms describe the process of moving returned goods to the retailer from the consumer to the DC,and then to the vendor for the purpose of capturing value or proper disposal?

The place where the point of sale data is stored,and that the organization uses to support its decisions is called __________.

What is a benefit of having an efficient supply chain?

Logistics is:

A(n)___________________ houses the coordinated and periodic copying of data from various sources,both inside and outside the enterprise,into an environment ready for analytical and informational processing.

Which of the following DOES NOT describe why an efficient supply chain is so important to retailers?

Which of the following best describes the goal of supply chain management?

________ is a system when retailers receive an order from a customer,they then have the product shipped directly to the customer from the vendor.

An inventory planner notes that the inventory she is responsible for would be best managed by relying on consumer demand.She recommends to her management to implement a(n)_________ that would support being in a better stock position of her managed products by store location.

What are the benefits of a QR system?

A(n)________________ is the set of rules that apply to activities in the computer and communications resources that belong to an organization.