[求助]PREP 07 36题

crazycrystal88

Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself.  Vernon, Inc., a small manufacturing company that has in recent years experienced a decline in its profits, plans to boost its profits by outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon 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 business that Vernon does not plan to outsource are some that require standards of accuracy too high for most independent suppliers to provide at lower cost than Vernon can.

(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.

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

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

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

答案E
我选了C

题目说：外包可以降低成本，增加利润
C讲了竞争者的问题，E讲了公司把精力更多的放在核心业务上。
我看了别的帖子解释说，因为C中竞争者和利润的关系不大。而E中把更多精力放在核心业务上是正面的。所以选E

但是，如果说竞争者少，不能得出利润升高的结论。
精力放在核心业务上，也无法说明会增加利润啊。
而且我觉得竞争者少，也是一个正面的啊。
为什么C不可以呢？

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非常感谢

拧发条喵

从题干可以看出这道题关心的是profit-cost，
竞争并不是重点，非要往题干扯的话，C到达所需的结论明显要比E多好几个推理过程

ashlyzhu

楼主，在下拙见，我觉得C根本就是无关选项
首先题目解释了外包的含义：就是让别人来做（本来是自己提供给自己的服务和产品）
前提：外包（让别人做）比自己做更省钱
结论：为了提高收益
看E选项，manager吧时间花在公司的核心业务上比花在自己来做那些小事（指的是外包）更好。。。所以啊，外包要给别人做了
C选项：几乎没有从做外包起步的公司A会扩大业务变成公司B（A之前为B提供服务既外包）的竞争者。。。不就是说以做外包起步的公司没啥前途被。。和本题没有关系吧。。。

frauschirm

Goal：independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself.
E直接减少了management cost
c 没有涉及到reduce cost，增加competitor的最多是公司减少revenue而不是减少cost