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 how _______________ are used by companies to collaborate with each other.

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Technical Jargon

Specialized vocabulary or terminology associated with a particular field or area of expertise.

Mental Shortcuts

Cognitive strategies or simplified processes used to make decisions or judgments quickly, also known as heuristics.

Heuristic Processing

A mental shortcut that allows individuals to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently, based on automatic, intuitive judgments.

Life Stages Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that individuals' preferences, behaviors, and attitudes change as they pass through different stages of their life.