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

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