A Recent Innovation by Amazon,the Vendor Flex Program,seeks to Lower

question 7

Multiple Choice

A recent innovation by Amazon,the Vendor Flex program,seeks to lower overall transportation costs but also creates new forms of channel conflict with competitors.As a partner in the Vendor Flex program,P&G agreed to allow Amazon to build fulfillment centers within P&G's own warehouses,thus helping to eliminate some of the costs of transporting P&G's products to Amazon's fulfillment centers.Believing that the program was giving its competitor Amazon an unfair advantage,Target reacted vigorously,moving all P&G products from prominent end-cap positions in its stores to less prestigious and less visible locations.Target also stopped using P&G as its primary source of advice for planning merchandising strategies within each category.This is an example of ____________ channel conflict.

• A) horizontal
• B) independent
• C) conventional
• D) coercive
• E) vertical

Calculate probabilities using the hypergeometric formula.

Apply the concept of sampling with or without replacement in probability calculations.

Contrast the hypergeometric, binomial, and Poisson distributions.

Derive and interpret the mean, variance, and other probabilities from given hypergeometric distribution scenarios.

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