Use
Technology
2.0
Performance
Connections
100
E-commerce
What is the buying and selling of goods and services over public and private computer networks.
100
Several or many Web server computers in a facility.
What is a Web farm.
100
A pre-release version of software that is used for testing; it becomes obsolete when the final version is released.
What is a beta.
100
Network of organizations and facilities that transform raw materials into products delivered to customers.
What is a supply chain.
100
Set of standards that facilitate distributed computing using Internet Technology.
What is Web services.
200
The elimination of middle layers in the supply chain.
What is disintermediation.
200
A computer program on the client computer that processes Web pages.
What is browser.
200
A loose cloud of capabilities, technologies, business models, and philosophies.
What is Web 2.0.
200
The only source of revenue in a supply chain.
What is the customer.
200
The standard for exchanging documents from machine to machine, electronically.
What is EDI (electronic data interchange).
300
Price Elasticity
What is the amount that demand rises or falls with changes in price.
300
Type of architecture used in almost all e-commerce applications.
What is three-tier.
300
Connections of people with similar interests.
What is social networking.
300
Facilities, inventory, transportation, and information.
What are the factors that drive supply chain performance.
300
A solution that is unique to and is owned by the organizations that develop and pay for the distributed systems.
What is proprietary.
400
Amazon.com, REI.com, and LLBean.com
What are examples of companies that use Business-to-Consumer information Systems.
400
Pointers to other Web pages.
What is are hyperlinks.
400
Companies combining the content of their products.
What is referred to as a mashup.
400
The difference between the sum of the revenue generated by the supply chain and the sum of the costs that all organizations in the supply chain incur to obtain that revenue.
What is supply chain profitability.
400
The process of a program on one computer accessing programs on a second computer.
What is remote computing or distributed computing.
500
Channel conflict, price conflict, logistics expense, and customer-service expense.
What are the economic factors which disfavor E-Commerce.
500

Price of Item

What is an HTML tag.
500
Pioneer of Web 2.0.
What is Google.
500
A phenomenon in which the variability in the size and timing of orders increases at each stage up the supply chain.
What is the bullwhip effect.
500
Solves the problems of HTML by requiring further content, structure, and format be placed into separate documents.
What is XML (extensible markup language).
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