Compare and contrast generalization and specialization. What ...

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Compare and contrast generalization and specialization.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following enables a firm to generate demand forecasts for a product, and to develop sourcing and manufacturing plans for that product?
 
  A) Supply chain demand system
  B) Supply chain delivery system
  C) Supply chain planning system
  D) Supply chain execution system
  E) Internal supply chain system

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Answer to Question 1

Generalization is the process of defining a more general entity type from a set of more specialized entity types. For example, if we had undergraduate and graduate students with similar attributes, then we might create a student supertype. The student supertype would then contain the attributes that all subtypes have in common. Specialization, on the other hand, would occur when we discover that we have a student type but there are different attributes for different types of students. In this case, we would create subtypes which would contain unique attributes for that subtype.

Answer to Question 2

C