1. Explain the three types of database reports used by organizations.
2. Financial reports used by internal users do not follow a particular set of rules hence can be created to satisfy managers information needs. Identify ten of such reports.

3. You have been called in as a consultant liaison for a dispute between sales, accounting, and IT professionals. The sales professionals are claiming that sales reports are distorted and are blaming the accounting department for a decrease in their sales bonuses. The accounting professionals have reviewed the sales reports and are concerned that the queries used to retrieve the sales data are not reporting all the sales for each region. So, the accounting professionals are blaming the IT staff. The IT professionals reply that they are just doing what they are told. IT claims they are understaffed and doing the best they can shorthanded. You have been called in to facilitate a resolution of this dispute. When reviewing the database tables used by the sales query, you notice that the names of countries in which sales occurred were not entered consistently. For example, you found that Italy was entered by the French as Italie, by the Italians as Italia, by the Germans as Italien, and by the English as Italy. When the query was run, you noticed that the search criteria was Italia. How would this dirty data dispute be resolved?

4 . The Ghanaian Ministry of Health (MOH) has introduced an electronic SC management system as the master plan to improve healthcare delivery. The challenges to be addressed by the electronic platform include shortage of medical supply due to delayed approval and procurement processes and the lack of adequate data on medical supplies stock. This five-year strategic plan (known as the Ghana Integrated Logistics Management Information System (GhILMIS) is aimed at coordinating demand and SC processes more efficiently and effectively. Discuss how emerging technologies can facilitate the implementation of this innovative strategy in healthcare supply chains.