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Slumbra offers a full range of nighttime apparel through catalogues, retail stores and the Internet. The nightwear is sold in retail stores across Australia. More than $65$ percent of its items are imported from China, purchased from export agents and directly from manufacturers. Because there are various levels of demand arising from its various channels, it needs notice of its inbound orders. It believes that advance ship notices $($ASN$)$ could be sent to Slumbra headquarters directly from the factory where the goods were made. Connecting to its global partners is vital to maintaining appropriate stock levels and to anticipating whether shortages may arise during peak demand periods. In addition, it needs to address excess stock that has accumulated due to over$-$ordering to anticipate shipping delays. It does not have the capability to integrate communications between all partners in$-$house. In addition, there is a significant amount of time that is spent when the shipments arrive from China at Slumbra's distribution centre. Time is spent opening the crates to verify the content. This means that the boxes need to be unpacked and repackaged.

Slumbra has identified a significant issue with its communication with the suppliers in China. What type of supply chain management system would enable the Chinese supplier to provide advance shipping notices?

A$)$ An Electronic Data Interchange system

B$)$ RFID tagging on all shipments

C$)$ A warehouse management system

D$)$ A web$-$based returns processing system