What is the most important benefit of an enterprise application? ...

[jenna1]

What is the most important benefit of an enterprise application?
 
  A) Enabling speed of communicating
  B) Enabling business functions and departments to share information
  C) Enabling a company to work collaboratively with customers and suppliers
  D) Enabling cost-effective, e-business processes
  E) Enabling managers to make better decisions

Question 2

Plant Away is an Oregon-based retailer and distributor of trees and shrubs. They have hundreds of smaller nurseries based around the country that grow the plant stock.
 
  The majority of their business is conducted online: Consumers purchase typically small quantities of products online and Plant Away coordinates the shipping from the most appropriate nursery. What unique problems might you anticipate they have in their supply chain? What might remedy these problems?

[bulacsom]

Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

Typical problems in supply chains arise from unforeseeable events. In a plant nursery, variations in the weather, growing season, plant diseases, and crop output would be uncertainties. Other problems might be interstate regulations governing plants allowed in different states, and making sure plants survive and are healthy during transportation. It would be very important to have up-to-date forecasting of the weather or growing seasons that could anticipate possible problems, and analyze and determine the best transportation routes.