QUESTION $1$

$1\mathrm{.}1$ There can be no doubt that outsourcing has become big business, in detail discuss the concept of outsourcing and state reasons why organisations choose to outsource.

$1\mathrm{.}2$ Over the past three decades, supply chains have become increasingly global, with the aid of examples identify risks that can arise from the globalisation of supply chain.

QUESTION $2$

$2\mathrm{.}1$ The development of increased customer expectations is not expected to shift any time soon, briefly outline challenges faced by companies since there's increased expectation of reliability placed on them.

$(10)$

$2\mathrm{.}2$ Global logistics strategies are organised plans to create efficient and cost$-$effective methods of managing global logistics operations, they are clustered into four different categories: people, process, technology, and network, briefly discuss them.

$(15)$