A Third Party May Increase the Supply Chain Surplus by Aggregating

question 32

Multiple Choice

A third party may increase the supply chain surplus by aggregating warehousing needs over several firms.This is called

• A)capacity aggregation.
• B)inventory aggregation.
• C)warehouse aggregation.
• D)relationship aggregation.

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