Exam 18: Supply Chain Information Systems and Electronic Sourcing

A legacy system enables people in very different parts of the organization to communicate easily with one another.

A/An ____ is a proprietary network or a data center that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people.

Price should be a very important element of the reverse auction process but not the only one.

Because MRP and DRP systems are primarily external,an additional electronic linkage to suppliers and customers is not needed.

Which of the following is not one of the benefits of a supplier performance module in an e-sourcing suite?

A/An ____ is thought of as a decision support tool for collecting information from multiple sources and making that information available to end users in a consolidated,consistent manner.

Which if the following is one of the basic components of an EDI system?

____ systems kick off and control the movement of materials among supply chain partners.

____ refers to the process of downloading all data buckets into the main system on a regularly scheduled basis.

Increasing the level of integration between logistics and other SCM applications presents firms with both technical and organizational hurdles.

A ____ contains the products or services of one or more suppliers.

B2B marketers are using Facebook and other social networking providers such as LinkedIn to facilitate the sales process.

All of the following are examples of the primary business processes around which an ERP system is designed except ____.

A ____ is an independent firm that neither buys nor sells goods but seeks to facilitate the electronic purchasing process through value enhancement.

Users must be able to extract from databases the information that they need to make better supply chain decisions.

A ____ is controlled by buyers and is tied into their intranets and extranets.

Increased redundancy of information between files allows different systems to cross-reference and efficiently use the data contained in all files.

____ applications address such long-term,strategic questions as "Where should we locate warehouses?",and "How large should our transportation fleet be?," often making use of simulation and optimization modeling.

Web-based EDI is a much less expensive system than a traditional,hard-wired EDI system and presents fewer standards issues.

Data held in data warehouses are time-dependent,historical data; they may also be aggregated.