阅读：求狗主gsskinggss看过来，regulation manager。。。考古求确认！！！原文题目

Jinny123

原文出自GWD

Manufacturing sitelocation is an important consideration in determining the optimal deployment ofa firm’s production resources, but one that is usually given only limited attention.Decisions about location are often based purely on quantitative analyses thattrade off transportation costs, economies of scale, and other cost-basedvariables. This practice, however, can lead to suboptimal results, asdecision-makers tend to focus only on easily quantifiable factors. A furtherdisadvantage of strictly cost-based methods is that they tend to focus on costadvantage factors, which are often transitoryGovernment regulations, taxsystems, and exchange rates can quickly change. Strategies based on suchparameters may eventually be rendered obsolete by the very factors that firstcreated an advantage.

Incontrast, qualitative issues, which are frequently neglected in choosingmanufacturing site locations, are often central to creating and supporting acompetitive advantage. For example, the level of skill possessed by the localworkforce varies with location; consequently, location can affect the abilityof firms to implement skill-based process technologies. When formulating a sitelocation strategy, companies should therefore emphasize qualitative factors toensure that the chosen strategy supports the company’s overall businessstrategy. Only after establishing a set of desirable location options shouldcompanies refine choices using cost-based factors

Q13. The passage suggestswhich of the following concerning qualitative methods used in choosingmanufacturing sites?

A.        They are more likely than arequantitative methods to identify issues crucial to maintaining a competitiveadvantage

B.        They are least useful to companies withrelatively low levels of manufacturing technology

C.        They have little value when applied todecisions other than choice of site

D.       They are more risky for decision makers thanare quantitative methods

E.        They are used more frequently bymultinational corporations than by companies with strictly domestic operations.

下题答案C与D间存在争议，故使用请谨慎

Q14. According to thepassage,analysis of quantitative factors is best used for which of thefollowing?

A.        Determining strategies for offsettingqualitative disadvantages in manufacturing site locations

B.        Evaluating manufacturing site-locationparameters affecting long-term competitive advantage

C.        Choosing manufacturing site locations thathave access to optimal workforce populations

D.       Narrowing manufacturing site-locationoptions arrived it through qualitative analysis

E.        Making decisions about businessconsiderations other than location of manufacturing sites

制造业选址（附原文）V1by amumuP1：制造业企业通常选择厂址时，以Cost作为考虑要素，但是Cost通常会受经济环境、政府政策等等的影响，因此并不是一个好的考虑要素。
P2：但是，选择不同的厂址，可能会提供不同的competitive advance。这个advance来自于当地的人力资源的skillness的情况。因此不同的厂址location会让企业获得不同的workforce skillness。
（1）文章认为企业考虑自己的exchange rate最应该考虑什么因素？(这个exchange rate我在文章里面找不到，就认为是第二段的观点去选了“需要考虑skillness”）
（2）作者认为location可以有什么作用？（我选的是"slightcompetitive advance"。基本上是复述P2开头的那句话）
（3）主题题。

gsskinggss

额，不是的，完全不一样喔。。

Jinny123

gsskinggss 发表于 2013-6-21 15:34
额，不是的，完全不一样喔。。

好的，谢谢狗主哈~~~