EDI system can best add value to which of the following process?

Select one: a. On daily basis sales department needs to send large amount of sales order information to both warehouse and production. Production department generates production plan according to the orders and sends the plan to warehouse, which sends inventory requests to purchasing department. b. Accounting department needs to monitor receiving and shipping activities at period end to ensure the transaction completeness in system. Accounting employees need to sort out thousands of sales recognized by the system from shipments, identify those with FOB Destination term at the end of month, manually posts adjusting entries to reverse these sales and increase in-transit inventory. c. The payment information from customer is a big data file generated from daily scanning at cashier. The file is sent to vendor to indicate which invoices the payment is paying to. Payment is issued on weekly basis to close thousands of invoices at a time. d. After entering vendor invoice into system, Accounts Payable has to compare information on the invoices with receiving report and purchase order before issuing payment. There are usually hundreds of receiving and invoices entered on daily basis.

2. the requirement that purchases be made from suppliers on an approved vendor list is an example of a:

Select one: a. Monitoring control b. Preventive control c. Corrective control d. Detective control