Exam 6: E-Supply Chains, collaborative Commerce, and Corporate Portals

________ is a business strategy that enables manufacturers to control and share product-related data as part of product design and development efforts and in support of supply chain operations.

Mobile support systems include each of the following except:

________ are online meetings whose members are in different locations,even in different countries.

A company's success is clearly dependent on finding and retaining customers and far more dependent on what is on the Web site than on what is going on behind the site.

RuBee relies on low-frequency magnetic waves to track products and transfer information.

Wal-Mart and Levi Strauss collaborate on demand forecasting in order to optimize the flow of materials along the supply chain.This is an example of:

The last fifteen orders from a manufacturer to its suppliers range from $100,000 to $8,750,000.This is an example of:

E-supply chain management is the collaborative use of technology to enhance B2C processes and improve speed,agility,real-time control,and customer satisfaction.

What are three solutions to supply chain problems provided by EC?

Infrastructure needed for groupware include all of the following except:

Studies have shown that electronic-based collaboration and product lifecycle management (PLM)can reduce product costs and travel expenses by 50 percent,as well as significantly reduce costs associated with product-change management.

Corporations are moving their phone systems to ________ to cut costs and boost efficiency.

During the design of the Boeing Dreamliner 787,IT-supported collaboration reduced the need for physical prototyping and testing.

When planning,designing and implementing integrated supply chain operations,management requires a holistic focus that takes into account all of the following primary factors except:

At hospitals and supermarkets,inventory reorder points have been automated so that when inventory gets down to a certain point the system will automatically notify a human of the exact amount to reorder.

As with any IT project,management needs to be able to justify the development and use of a corporate portal by comparing its cost with its benefits.The challenge is that despite the tangible benefits from investment in portal technology,such as include increased revenues and customer loyalty,most of the benefits of portals are intangible.

________ are collaborative tools that enable people to work on the same files and documents,making changes in a very rapid way.

The e-SCM process that includes integrated production and distribution processes is:

Which of the following about supply chain problems is not true?

SCM aims to minimize inventory levels,optimize production and increase throughput,decrease manufacturing time,optimize logistics and distribution,streamline order fulfillment,and overall reduce the costs associated with these activities.