XL - B, a Canadian fast-food restaurant specializing in exotic meat hamburgers, has a central regional kitchen in which: (1) the bread is baked, (2) the meat is minced, (3) the other ingredients are sliced, (4) the meat and potato chips are cooked and, finally, (5) the hamburger is assembled. Recently, XL - B has decided to move steps (4) and (5) (the cooking and final assembly) of their hamburgers away from the central regional kitchen to fast food outlets located in different neighborhoods.
What will XL - B achieve with this new strategy? (Multiple Choose if applicable)

A) Move the push-pull boundary upstream in the supply chain.
B) Make deliveries from suppliers more efficient.
C) Create an Engineer to Order system.
D) Generate greater economies of scale at the central regional kitchen.
E) Have a shorter order cycle time.
F) None of the above.

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