Nestlé is one of the companies shown as an example of low-quality information causing problems for the company.Which of the following are some of the errors they found in the data or information?
A)They had 550,000 actual vendors, yet the information reports showed more than 9 million due to duplication and abbreviation inaccuracies.
B)Some of the vendor names were abbreviated, whereas others were not.
C)They had too many inaccuracies and duplications to be able to identify customer profitability.
D)All of these

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Nestlé is one of the companies shown as an example of low-quality information causing problems for the company.All of the following were some of the errors they found in the data or information: (1) they had 550,000 actual vendors, yet the information reports showed more than 9 million due to duplication and abbreviation inaccuracies; (2) some of the vendor names were abbreviated, whereas others were not, and (3) they had too many inaccuracies and duplications to be able to identify customer profitability.

Nestlé Is One of the Companies Shown as an Example