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deesands

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List three logistics characteristics and explain how e-logistics differs from traditional logistics on each characteristic.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to Gartner's hype cycle, which of the following stages is the point at which the technology becomes unfashionable and the media abandons the topic, because the topic did not live up to its inflated expectations?
 
  A) trough of disillusionment
  B) slope of enlightenment
  C) plateau of productivity
  D) peak of inflated expectations



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Answer to Question 1

Characteristics include type and quantity, destinations, demand type, value of shipment, nature of demand, customers, inventory order flow, accountability, transporter, and warehouse. Exhibit 11.2 provides examples.

Answer to Question 2

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