You work for a retail company that has stores and operations across "the Americas" - North America, Central, and South America. For business purposes, Central and South America are part of the same overall region and management structure, while North America (U.S., Canada) is a separate region. Currently your company has no data warehouses, data marts, operational data stores, or any other integrated stores of data used for reporting, BI, and analytics. Your company also has an Internet presence with a website from which customers can purchase products. For purposes of this assignment, you are interested in the following seven applications: 1. Supply Chain Operations, North America Region - this application manages all supply chain functions for the company's North America Region. The functions managed by this application include materials and inventory management; vendor management; materials ordering and defective material return; shipping and logistics; warehouse management; etc