Unilever's Web-Based Database, the Transportation Business Center TBC), Provides Its

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Unilever's web-based database, the Transportation Business Center TBC) , provides its 30 contract carriers with site specification requirements about pick-up and delivery locations. The TBC contains information such as contact names and phone numbers, operating hours, the number of dock doors at a location, the height of the dock doors, how to make an appointment to deliver or pick up shipments, pallet configuration, and other special requirements. Unilever's practice of providing this kind of information over a network with its carriers is an example of:

• A) Enterprise use of Intranets
• B) Use of Big Data
• C) Virtual collaboration between businesses
• D) Enterprise search

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Definitions:

Bretton Woods Agreement

The Bretton Woods Agreement was established in 1944 to set up a new international monetary system, creating exchange rate stability and promoting international economic cooperation.

Exchange Rates

The value of one currency expressed in terms of another currency, which determines how much foreign currency can be exchanged for a unit of domestic currency.

Gold Convertibility

The ability to convert a currency directly into gold, a system which provides a measure of security and confidence in a currency's value.

Managed Float

A currency exchange rate policy where a country's central bank intervenes occasionally to change the direction or the pace of change of a currency's value, without specific target levels.