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emily_z0301

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Outsourcing is the practice ofobtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company haspreviously provided for itself.  Vernon,Inc., a small manufacturing company that has in recent years experienced adecline in its profits, plans to boost its profits by outsourcing those partsof its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost thanVernon can itself.

Which of the following, if true,most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?

(A) Among the parts of its businessthat Vernon does not plan to outsource are some that require standards ofaccuracy too high for most independent suppliers to provide at lower cost thanVernon can.

(B) Vernon itself acts as anindependent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers thatformerly made those items themselves.

(C) Relatively few manufacturersthat start as independent suppliers have been able to expand their business andbecome direct competitors of the companies they once supplied.

(D) Vernon plans to select theindependent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.

(E) Attending to certain tasks thatVernon performs relatively inefficiently has taken up much of the time andeffort of top managers whose time would have been better spent attending toVernon's core business.

错选D，应选E。

我选成D了，觉得这个选项表明价钱应该会最低，所以cost会少。不太明白E为什么对，managers转到core business会怎么样？

mashengyi

二楼说的对 竞标考虑的因素有很多 不一定就是价格低

emily_z0301

谢谢啦啊，其实我后来也想通D了，可是当时做题的时候就想错了

vivita

E managers转到core business可以增加profit，plan的目的是boost its profits
迷惑的选项是C，（上游供应厂商不太会成为竞争对手）因为竞争对手对于profit的影响没有说明
同样D,竞价不能保证provide at lower cost thanVernon can itself