Efficient supply chains and responsive supply chains

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1. The DEF Corporation provides integrated services that include storing manufactured goods, packaging, and delivering it to the dealers or customers. Given this information, DEF is most likely a ______.

a. third-party logistics provider

b. contract manufacturer

c. distribution center

d. supplier

e. Importer-exporter expediter

2. A difference between efficient supply chains and responsive supply chains is that responsive supply chains ______.

a. focus on flexibility and responsive service

b. focus on maximizing efficiencies in process flow

c. seek to balance capacity and demand, resulting in low levels of inventory

d. seek to minimize cost of routing products from factory to customers

3. Smith and Jones Inc. is an automobile manufacturing firm. It produces and assembles all the parts of automobiles in its factory and, later, ships the finished products to its storehouses. The managers at the storehouses distribute the goods to wholesalers. Customers then buy the products from the wholesalers. In this scenario, the push–pull boundary for Rues and West Inc. is at the ______.

a. factory

b. wholesalers

c. storehouses

d. assembly section

e. All of the above would fit here

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