• Description: BEA SOA Adoption and Implementation Exam
• Passing Score: 75%
• Practice Test - Number of questions: 56 questions
• Simulation Test - Number of questions: 56 questions
• Simulation Test Duration: 90 minutes
• Has explanations: No

Best Tech, inc. is a national retailer of consumer electronic goods. Their stores have been dealing with supply problems. Best Techs central distribution department allocates goods to stores based on weekly forecasts calculated by their inventory system. These forecasts are based on monthly batch files sent from the stores that contain sales history. The marketing department sometimes runs flash promotions which causes a run on a particular product. The forecasters usually account for this, but they dont account for complementary products, or products that may be nearby in the store layout that become whim purchases. As such, Best Tech stores are often out of stock on many popular items. Other times, Best Tech stores and regional warehouses are flooded with inventory that they dont need. While there are several solutions to this problem, what would be the optimal solution for BestTech to handle sales of complementary products, considering SOA best practices?

Answer(s)

1. Service enable the forecast feeds so they can be sent on a more frequent basis.
2. Service-enable point of sale and inventory: All sales from the point of sale system shouldinvoke a shared business service that logs the sale, so the forecasters have up-to-the-secondplanning information
3. Service-enable a pull supply chain: All sales from the point of sale system should invoke ashared business service that immediately orders a new part from the warehouse. This in turninvokes a service at the regional distributor, which then invokes a service at the supplier.
4. Service-enable the local store and regional warehouse inventory systems, so the planningdepartment can, in real time, request inventory status from several stores at once to gain amore accurate single view to drive forecasts.

Service-enable a pull supply chain: All sales from the point of sale system should invoke ashared business service that immediately orders a new part from the warehouse. This in turninvokes a service at the regional distributor, which then invokes a service at the supplier.