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Bloom's Jeans is searching for new suppliers, and Debbie Bloom, the owner, has narrowed her choices to two sets. Debbie is very concerned about supply disruptions, so she has chosen to use three suppliers no matter what. For option1, the suppliers are well-established and located in the same country. Debbie calculates the "unique-event" risk for each of them to be 3%. She estimates the probability of a nationwide event that would knock out all three suppliers to be 2.3%. For option2, the suppliers are newer but located in three different countries. Debbie calculates the "unique-event" risk for each of them to be 19%. She estimates the "super-event" probability that would knock out all three of these suppliers to be 0.5%. Purchasing and transportation costs would be $1 comma 100 comma 000 per year using option 1 and $1 comma 110 comma 000 per year using option 2. A total disruption would create an annualized loss of $480 comma 000.

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