The HBR article titled “Supply Chain Management, Hong Kong Style” illustrated the importance of dispersed manufacturing. Please give an example to show what “dispersed manufacturing” means.

Dispersed manufacturing reduces the cost of production by utilizing locally available resources.

Explanation:

Dispersed manufacturing allows one to locate manufacturing plants at different locations to allow dispersed manufacturing and using intervention of technology i.e cloud computing.

This allows use of locally available resources at different locations for manufacturing thereby reducing the overall cost of production.

answer: e

explanation:

1) the stages a new product goes through from beginning to end, i.e., the stages that a product passes through from introduction through growth, maturity, and decline. 2) the time from initial research and development to the time at which sales and support of the product to customers are withdrawn. 3) the period of time during which a product can be produced and marketed profitably.

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