6-9 Your industrial supply company wants to create a data warehouse where management can obtain a single corporate-wide view of critical sales information to identify bestselling products, key customers, and sales trends. Your sales and product information are stored in two different systems: a divisional sales system running on a Unix server and a corporate sales system running on an IBM mainframe.

You would like to create a single standard format that consolidates these data from both systems. In MyLab MIS, you can review the proposed format along with sample files from the two systems that would supply the data for the data warehouse. Then answer the following questions: