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31) ________ is the extent to which a company’s supply chain is focusing on maximizing customer service regardless of procurement, production, and transportation costs. A) Supply chain visibility B) Supply chain effectiveness C) Supply chain analytics D) Supply chain efficiency E) Supply network collaboration 32) Which of the following is an example of supply chain efficiency? A) Federal Express focuses on providing superior service. B) Caterpillar has high spare parts availability. C) Dr. Pepper introduces a new flavor of soft drink. D) Rolex positions itself as a prestige brand. E) Apple sources its raw materials in a way to keep costs low. 33) ________ is a data presentation standard first specified by the World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium of companies whose purpose is to develop open standards for the Web. A) Extensible Markup Language B) Perl C) MySQL D) Active Server Pages E) Unified Modeling Language 34) ________ allow(s) designers of Web documents to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations. A) MySQL B) Active Server Pages C) Extensible Markup Language D) Perl E) Unified Modeling Language 35) Which of the following statements is true about XML? A) XML is standardized. B) XML specifies a particular formatting. C) XML cannot be tailored to share any data across applications over the Web. D) XML tags are used to supply interactive content to a Web page. E) XML instructs systems as to how information should be interpreted and used. 36) ________ is an XML-based specification for publishing financial information. A) Extensible Rights Markup Language B) Extensible Application Markup Language C) Extensible Access Control Markup Language D) Extensible Business Reporting Language E) Enterprise Mashup Markup Language 37) ________ includes tags for data such as annual and quarterly reports, Securities and Exchange Commission filings, general ledger information, and net revenue and accounting schedules. A) Extensible Application Markup Language B) Extensible Business Reporting Language C) Extensible Access Control Markup Language D) Enterprise Mashup Markup Language E) Extensible Rights Markup Language 38) Lee’s department store uses the every day low prices strategy. This strategy hinges upon the store’s ability to obtain consumer goods at the cheapest possible price and pass these savings on to consumers. Lee’s store also developed its own distribution network for supplying its retail outlets with consumer goods. This distribution network allowed them to cut out external suppliers and middlemen, further driving down business costs. This implies that the competitive strategy used by this store would most likely focus on ________. A) supply chain efficiency B) supply chain visibility C) supply chain effectiveness D) operational CRM E) analytical CRM 39) Comptel, a world leader in computer hardware, differentiates itself from its customers by providing excellent after-sales service. This implies that the competitive strategy used by Comptel would most likely focus on ________. A) supply chain analytics B) supply chain visibility C) supply chain effectiveness D) supply network collaboration E) supply chain efficiency 40) ________ uses the electromagnetic energy to transmit information between a reader (transceiver) and a processing device. A) Radio frequency identification B) High capacity color barcode C) Interferometric modulator display D) Photonic computing E) Electronic product code