Across
- 2. Goods not directly involved in the production process.
- 4. Refers to a wide variety of activities that firms and industries use to coordinate the key players in their procurement process.
- 7. An industry __________ is an industry-owned vertical market that enables buyers to purchase direct inputs from a limited set of invited participants.
- 8. Decreased ___________ time by sharing designs and production schedules with suppliers is another benefit of B2B e-commerce (2 words).
- 10. In the supply chain industry differentiating a firm's products or prices on the basis of superior supply chain management.
- 13. Lower __________ costs is one benefit of B2B e-commerce
- 17. A method of inventory costs management that seeks to reduce excess inventory to a bare minimum (3 words).
- 19. Goods directly involved in the production process.
- 20. A market that provides expertise and products for a specific industry.
- 21. A set of production methods and tools that focuses on the elimination of waste throughout the customer value chain.
- 22. Supply chain where the labor conditions in low-wage, underdeveloped producer countries are morally acceptable to ultimate consumers in more developed industrial societies.
- 23. The third step in the procurement process.
- 24. Global trade and logistics systems are generating huge repositories of this which includes B2B data, swamping management understanding and control (2 words).
Down
- 1. A communications standard for sharing business documents and settlement information among a small number of firms.
- 2. The potential need to share sensitive data is considered an __________ implementation barrier.
- 3. Companies are migrating B2B hardware and software to __________ computing and apps, away form individual and corporate data centers, as a means of slowing rising technology costs.
- 5. Products for maintenance, repair and operations (2 words).
- 6. Supply chain that allows companies to react to disruptions in the supply chain in a particular region by moving production to a different region.
- 9. _________ business is a call for business to take social and ecological interests, and not just corporate profits, into accounts in all their decision-making throughout the firm.
- 11. This brings hundreds to thousands of suppliers and buyers into a single Internet-based environment to conduct trade (2 words).
- 12. The fifth stage of the procurement process.
- 14. The links that connect business firms with one another to coordinate production (2 words).
- 15. An independently owned online marketplace that connects hundreds to potentially thousands of suppliers and buyers in a dynamic, real-time environment.
- 16. In the supply chain industry growing calls for more real-time data that would allow managers to see across not only their production, but also see into the production and financial condition of their key suppliers.
- 18. Markets that serve many different industries.