Question 1

If customers wished to avoid the bullwhip effect by sharing sales data from their CRM system with their vendors, they program a_________ application to which vendors could send service requests.

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Question 2

Applications that provide a standardized way for programs to access one another remotely, without the use of proprietary software are called_________ .

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Question 3

Communications between the user and server computers are governed by_________ .

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Question 4

Electron exchanges that serve to match up buyers and sellers are an example of_________.

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Question 5

One alternative way of distributing a proprietary application is to develop it and then have it installed on the customer's __________ .

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Question 6

ThomasCook.com licenses its "currency converter" application to any company that wants to deploy this on their own web site and not have to re- program it. This application is an example of a_________ .

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Question 7

The _________sponsors the creation of Web standards.

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Question 8

A_________ architecture is the most common one for commerce servers.

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Question 9

Information is one of the main factors or_________ that affect the performance of a supply chain.

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Question 10

A __________ is a network of organizations that transforms raw materials into product delivered to customers.

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Question 11

In multistage supply chains such as those at Proctor and Gamble, studies have shown a phenomenon called the_________ in which the variability in the size and timing of orders increases at each stage up the supply chain.

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Question 12

_________arrange for the purchase and sale of goods without taking title.

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Question 13

If a manufacturer of flat screen TVs begins to undercut its distributors and selling directly to consumers via their company Web site, they are engaging in a price and_________ conflict.

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Question 14

The first tier of a three- tier server architecture is called the_________ tier and consists of computers with browsers.

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Question 15

When sharing inventory data with supply chain partners it is especially important that proper _________are set up so that potential competitors cannot access sensitive information that could be used against your firm.

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Question 16

E- commerce allows companies like Amazon.com to interact directly with consumers and experiment with different prices for similar products to see how pricing impacts the demand for the product; something known as price _________.

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Question 17

Transfer payments are sometimes used to encourage supply chain partners to carry more _________so that the customer does not run out of a product at a crucial time in the sales cycle.

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Question 18

EDI provides standard formats for electronically exchanging common business_________.

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Question 19

The second tier of a three- tier server architecture is where _________programs are processed.

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Question 20

XML documents are automatically checked for errors by being validated against an XML_________.

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Quiz 8: E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems