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Assignment5题库chap5
Assignment5 题库
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
__T__ 1. An emerging characteristic of purchasing, logistics, and support activities is that they need to be flexible.
__F__ 2. Direct materials that companies buy on a recurring basis are MRO supplies.
__T__ 3. FedEx and UPS have freight-tracking Web pages available to their customers.
__T__ 4. Online Benefits is a firm that duplicates its clients' human resource functions on a password-protected Web site that is accessible to clients' employees.
__T__ 5. In 1999, Ericsson launched a Web site to facilitate knowledge management.
__F__ 6. Most B2C electronic commerce is an adaptation of EDI.
__T__ 7. The ASC X12 organization and the UN/EDIFACT group agreed in late 2000 to develop one common set of international standards.
__F__ 8. One of the major advantages of VANs is cost.
__T__ 9. GPAS and IBM Global Services are companies that provide VAN services.
__F__ 10. The up-front cost of implementing indirect connection EDI, including software, VAN enrollment fee, and hardware, typically exceeds $500,000.
__F__ 11. Ventro opened its first industry marketplace, Chemdex, in early 1987.
__T__ 12. A purchasing or logistics strategy that works this year may not work next year.
__T__ 13. Businesses make a distinction between direct and indirect materials.
__T__ 14. Governments perform many functions for their stakeholders.
__F__ 15. Because of advances in computer technology, most businesses do not need to buy office supplies or the services of freight and transportation companies.
__T__ 16. By coordinating the efforts of supply chain participants, firms that engage in supply chain management are reaching beyond the limits of their own organization's hierarchical structure and creating a new network form of organization among the members of the supply chain.
__F__ 17. By engaging competitors in cooperative, long-term relationships, companies have found that they can work together with these competitors to identify new ways to provide their own customers with faster, cheaper, and better services.
__F__ 18. In many companies, procurement staff need not have high levels of product knowledge to identify and evaluate appropriate suppliers.
__T__ 19. A passive RFID tag does not need a power source.
__T__ 20. Many industry value chains no longer consist of a single sequence of companies linked in a single line but include many parallel lines that are interconnected in a web or network configuration.
__F__ 21. Large companies usually assign responsibility for purchasing direct and indirect materials to the same department.
__T__ 22. EDI was the first form of electronic commerce to be widely used in business.
__F__ 23. EDI increases the paper flow and streamlines the interchange of information among departments within a company.
__F__ 24. Most VANs do not require an enrollment fee.
__T__ 25. Using VANs can become cumbersome and expensive for companies that want to do business with a numberof trading partners, each using different VANs.
__T__ 26. EDI and XML are both used in many businesses to handle the electronic exchange of transaction information.
__F__ 27. Many companies are willing to use the Internet to transmit FEDI transaction sets.
__T__ 28. The ultimate goal of supply chain management is to achieve a higher-quality or lower cost product at the end of the chain.
__F__ 29. FEDI transaction sets are not negotiable instruments.
__F__ 30. When EFTs involve two banks, they are executed using a VAN.
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
__a__ 31. The term ____ generally includes all purchasing activities, plus the monitoring of all elements of purchase transactions.
a. procurement c. distribution
b. logistics d. sales
__b__ 32. W.W. Grainger is a(n) ____.
a. Music store c. computer supplier
b. MRO supplier d. book wholesaler
__b__ 33. ____ activities include managing the inbound movements of materials and supplies and the outbound movements of finished goods and services.
a. Procurement c. Transaction
b. Logistics d. Production
__b__ 34. The classic objective of ____ has always been to provide the right goods in the right quantities in the right place at the right time.
a. procurement c. transaction processing
b. logistics d. production
__c__ 35. One common support activity that underlies multiple primary activities is ____.
a. record-keeping c. training
b. auditing d. regulation
__b__ 36. ____ is the intentional collection, classification, and dissemination of information about a company, its products, and its processes.
a. Database management c. Data warehousing
b. Knowledge management d. Data mining
__c__ 37. One trend in purchasing, logistics, and support activities is the shift away from hierarchical structures toward ____ structures.
a. vertical c. network
b. horizontal d. matrix
__a__ 38. The ____ is enabling the shift from hierarchical forms of economic organization to network forms.
a. Web c. LAN
b. computer d. client/server
__d__ 39. The roots of Web technology for B2B transactions lie in a very hierarchically structured approach to interfirm information transfer called ____.
a. client/server c. Object technology
b. TCP/IP d. electronic data interchange
__c__ 40. EDI is the acronym for ____.
a. Education Interchange c. Electronic Data Interchange
b. Elementary Decision Implementation d. Electronic Distance Interface
__c__ 41. ____ is a computer-to-computer transfer of business information between two businesses that uses a standard format of some kind.
a. TCP/IP c. EDI
b. LAN d. SST
__c__ 42. With respect to EDIs, the two businesses that exchange information are called ____.
a. traders c. trading partners
b. hand-shakers d. collaborators
__b__ 43. Firms that exchange data in specific standard formats are said to be ____.
a. standard codes c. common
b. EDI compatible d. protocol
__c__ 44. The ____ has been the coordinating body for standards in the U.S. since 1918.
a. ACM c. ANSI
b. IEEE d. DPMA
__a__ 45. In 1979, ANSI chartered a new committee to develop uniform EDI standards. This committee is called the ____.
a. ASC X12 c. IEEE 2321
b. ACM X15 d. ASE A23
__a__ 46. In 1987, the United Nations published its first EDI standards under the title ____.
a. EDIFACT c. EDI-UN
b. UN-ANSI d. ANSI X12
__b__ 47. ____ requires each business in the network to operate its own on-site EDI translator computer.
a. Indirect connection EDI c. Repeated EDI
b. Direct connection EDI d. Wired EDI
__a__ 48. A(n) ____ is a company that provides communications equipment, software, and skills needed to receive, store, and forward electronic messages that contain EDI transaction sets.
a. VAN c. API
b. EDI provider d. LAN
__c__ 49. To use the services of a VAN, a company must install ____ software that is compatible with the VAN.
a. network compiler c. EDI translator
b. LAN interpreter d. VAN router
__a__ 50. ____ allows trading partners to pass messages through the VAN instead of connecting their computers directly to each other.
a. Indirect connection EDI c. Loop EDI
b. Direct connection EDI d. VAN EDI
__c__ 51. Because EDI transactions are business contracts and often involve large amounts of money, the issue of ____ is significant.
a. secrecy c. nonrepudiation
b. integrity d. privacy
__a__ 52. EDI on the Internet is also called ____.
a. open EDI c. online EDI
b. closed EDI d. digital EDI
__c__ 53. New tools, such as ____, are helping trading partners be even more flexible in exchanging detailed information.
a. HTML c. XML
b. T-HTML d. SGML
__b__ 54. The EDI transaction sets that provide instructions to a trading partner's bank are called ____.
a. BEDI c. XEDI
b. FEDI d. ACH
__a__ 55. ____ banks offer VAN services for nonfinancial transactions.
a. Value-added c. Virtual
b. Financial d. Online
__a__ 56. When companies integrate their supply management and logistics activities across multiple participants in a particular product’s supply chain, the job of managing that integration is called ____.
a. supply chain management c. enterprise resource planning
b. procurement management d. total quality management
__c__ 57. Supply chain management was originally developed as a way to ____.
a. attract customers c. reduce costs
b. negotiate with suppliers d. improve manufacturing quality
__c__ 58. The long-term relationships that are created among participants in the supply chain are called ____.
a. quality partners c. supply alliances
b. JIT alliances d. joint suppliers
__a__ 59. Businesses that engage in supply chain management work to establish long-term relationships with a small number of very capable suppliers called ____.
a. tier-one suppliers c. secondary suppliers
b. primary suppliers d. supply alliances
__d__ 60. The major issue that most companies must deal with in forming supply chain alliances is developing ____.
a. standard procedures c. network relationships
b. open communication channels d. trust
__c__ 61. A(n) ____ has a password-protected entrance and offers negotiated price reductions on a limited selection of products.
a. customer portals marketplace c. private store
b. private marketplace d. independent exchange
__d__ 62. A(n) ____ is a marketplace that provides auctions, request for quote postings, and other features to companies that want to operate their own marketplace.
a. private store c. private exchange
b. customer portals marketplace d. private company marketplace
__c__ 63. A(n) ____ is a marketplace formed by several large buyers in a particular industry.
a. private company marketplace
b. private store
c. industry
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