This term references the frustrating condition in which a company's information is fragmented among individual business units
What are data silos?
100
This is the plaform on which supply chain analytics must run
What is OBIEE
100
This Christmas song contains the lyrics "with a corn cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal
What is frosty the snowman?
100
This is the traditional fare that children leave for Santa on Christmas eve
What are milk and cookies?
200
This term describes how "nimbly" a company can respond to changes in consumer demand
What is agility?
200
This is a term that represents sections of the supply chain that slow down the entire chain's oveall performance
What are bottlenecks?
200
This acronym is often used to describe ERP applications that are specific to supply chain
What is SCM?
200
This Christmas song contains the lyrics "Dashing through the snow"
What is Jingle Bells?
200
This is the traditional liquor that is placed in EggNog
What is rum?
300
What is a term used to descibe the process of finding an item in the warehouse, packaging it, and then moving it to the customer
What is fulfillment?
300
This is a term that descibes insufficient supply to meet customer demand
What is a backorder or a shortage?
300
This is a store of information accumulated from a company's ERP system that analytic applications access
What is a data warehouse?
300
This song includes the lyric "a partridge in a pear tree"
What is Twelve Days of Christmas?
300
This is the number of candles on a Menorah
What is 9?
400
This term describes the concept in which the range of products purchased or sold by an organization is broken down into discrete groups of similar or related products
What is catagory management?
400
The result of this customer activity can lead to an unanticipated loss of revenue
What are returns and cancellations?
400
These are two other BI Apps (aside from Supply Chain Analytis) that might be of interest to an operations executive
What are Procurement and Spend AND Manufacturing Analytics?
400
This song includes the lyrics "tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight"
What is chestnuts roasting on an open fire/the Christmas song?
400
This is the name of the holiday in which people celebrate the arrival of the three wise men
What is Epiphany?
500
This term describes the process by which advanced analytics discovers the reason or "why" behind an impacted KPI in traditional analytics
What is root cause analysis?
500
This difficult to view process involves receiving and processing customer sales
What is order to cash process?
500
This is the term assigned to a group of storage units throughout which a large company's big data stores are distributed
What is a Hadoop cluster?
500
This is the name of the famous Christmas themed ballet written by Tchaikovsky
What is the Nutcracker?
500
These are the names of Santa's reindeer
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph?