WalMart, the World's Largest Retailer, Uses RFID Tags to Track

question 5

Multiple Choice

WalMart, the world's largest retailer, uses RFID tags to track movement of goods across its intense supply chain. One identifiable benefit is that pallets of goods no longer need to be manually logged by a worker when received. Instead, an information system automatically logs the goods as they arrive. This benefit is identified as which type of business change:

• A) Innovation
• B) Efficiency
• C) Cessation
• D) Work force reduction
• E) Doing new things

Develop the ability to critically analyze the content and construct of business messages.

Learn and identify words that carry negative connotations in a business context.

Understand the concepts of cash flows, salvage value, and straight-line depreciation in investment assessment.

Calculate and interpret the accounting rate of return for investment decisions.

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