Honda Uses Just-In-Time Manufacturing to Build Its Odyssey Minivans

question 162

Multiple Choice

Honda uses just-in-time manufacturing to build its Odyssey minivans.Five companies that make component parts for the Honda Odyssey relocated to Alabama and states bordering Alabama when Honda announced plans to build a new Odyssey manufacturing plant in Alabama.This relocation in order to provide efficient delivery of goods indicates that Honda is which of the following?

• A) a horizontal integrator
• B) a demand maverick
• C) a distribution champion
• D) a channel captain

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Definitions:

Non-importation Agreements

A series of colonial American boycotts against British goods in the lead-up to the American Revolution, aiming to protest British policies and taxes.

Townshend Acts

A series of British acts passed in the late 1760s imposing duties on colonial imports in America, contributing to growing unrest and the American Revolution.

Formal Agreements

Officially binding contracts or treaties between parties, often involving nations or organizations.

Tea Importation

The process of bringing tea into one country from another country for sale, trade, or consumption.