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Collaborative engineering allows an organization to reduce the cost and time required during the design process of a product.

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What is a supply chain execution system?

A) Views all areas up and down the supply chain in real time.
B) Uses advanced mathematical algorithms to improve the flow and efficiency of the supply chain while reducing inventory.
C) Ensures supply chain cohesion by automating the different activities of the supply chain.
D) Occurs when distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next throughout the supply chain.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Robotics supports procurement.

Effective and efficient supply chain management systems can enable an organization to decrease the power of its buyers.

A supply chain execution system might electronically route orders from a manufacturer to a supplier using electronic data interchange (EDI), a standard format for the electronic exchange of information between supply chain participants.

Logistics can help a company answer the following question: What quantity of raw materials should we purchase to minimize spoilage?

Customer order cycle time is the agreed upon time between the purchase of a product and the delivery of the product.

The bullwhip effect occurs when distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next throughout the supply chain.

Cradle to grave is a community center that provides technology, manufacturing equipment, and educational opportunities to the public that would otherwise be inaccessible or unaffordable.

Materials are transformed into semi finished and finished products-the organization's own production processes.

Define the relationship between supply chain management and decision making.

Information technology's primary role in supply chain management is creating the integrations or tight process and information linkages between functions within a firm-such as marketing, sales, finance, manufacturing, and distribution-and between firms.

Which of the following questions can logistics help a company answer?

Logistics controls processes inside a company (warehouse logistics) and outside a company (transport logistics) and focuses on the physical execution part of the supply chain.

What are robotics?

Inventory cycle time is the frequency of inventory replacement.

RFID's Electronic Product Code (RFID EPC) promotes serialization, or the ability to track individual items by using the unique serial number associated with each RFID tag.

What is a community center that provides technology, manufacturing equipment, and educational opportunities to the public that would otherwise be inaccessible or unaffordable?

Drones are unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human.

Drones include a process that builds-layer by layer in an additive process-a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model.