A Strategic Business Unit (SBU)

question 38

Multiple Choice

A strategic business unit (SBU) :

• A) competes with the same companies as the other SBUs in the parent organization
• B) shares the same mission with all the other SBUs in the parent organization
• C) controls its business independent of other SBUs in the organization
• D) usually benefits from the combined corporate raw materials purchases
• E) still has strategic planning performed back at corporate headquarters

Distinguish between feasible and optimal solutions in transportation problems.

Understand the implications of supply-demand imbalance and the necessity of dummy destinations or sources.

Describe how to handle prohibited routes in a transportation model.

Calculate improvement indices and identify optimal solutions.

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