You Are Responsible for Physical Distribution of Your Company's Service

question 34

Multiple Choice

You are responsible for physical distribution of your company's service and should focus on:

• A) ensuring the intangibility of the service so that physical distribution becomes a less important factor
• B) minimizing wait times,managing service capacity,improving service delivery,and establishing channel-wide network coherence
• C) making sure production and consumption are simultaneous
• D) setting quality standards,choosing faster transportation modes,and using safety stock
• E) customer-oriented order processing and inventory control

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