B2B EC can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of supply chains or dramatically change the supply chain by eliminating one or more intermediaries

Offshoring is defined as:

A. a practice of having another company provide services. B. moving operations from the country where a company is headquartered to a country where pay rates are lower but the necessary skills are available. C. a method of staffing other than the traditional hiring of full-time employees. D. a complete review of the organization's critical work processes to make them more efficient and able to deliver higher quality of products and services. E. the act of acquiring a new company in a distant location or another country in order to acquire higher market share or growth.

________ is the cabling, hardware, and software used to connect workstations, computers and file servers located in a confined geographical area

A) WAN B) LAN C) File server D) RAM