Direct shipment distribution typically offers which of the following advantages?

Which of the following types of risk typically would be most difficult to plan for and mitigate?

In terms of segmenting supply chain relationships and approaches in effective management ofsupply chain relationships, strategic items which include goods and services that consume alarge portion of total purchase dollars require __________value, and _________ qualifiedsuppliers in order to achieve the best results.

An operations manager wants to measure variability in the delivery time of insurance policies to clients. Which of the following quality tools most appropriately would show the level of variability?

All of the following are reasons why a top-down approach is a necessity to be effective at thesupply chain level EXCEPT: