Supply-Chain Management
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Exercises

Part 3

Which of these alternatives (vertical integration, carry more inventory, or closer relations with suppliers) would be most effective under each of these different threats? Explain.

1. Elimination of the middlemen by sellers buying wholesalers or wholesalers starting their own retail Web sites.
 
 
2. E-commerce Web sites outsourcing the book distribution process to third party logistics partners.
 
 
3. Authors selling directly to the public.
 
 
 

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