Supply Chain Management $1.$ What differences in the retail environment may justify the fact that the fast$-$moving consumer goods supply chain in India has far more distributors than it has in the United States? $2.$ A specialty chemical company is considering expanding its operations into Brazil, where five companies dominate the consumption of specialty chemicals. What sort of distribution network should this company use? $3.$ A distributor has heard that one of the major manufacturers from which it buys is considering going direct to the consumer. What can the distributor do about this? What advantages can it offer the manufacturer that the manufacturer is unlikely to be able to reproduce? $4.$ What types of distribution networks are typically best suited for commodity items? $5.$ What type of network is best suited to highly differentiated products? $6.$ In the future, do you see the value added by distributors decreasing, increasing, or staying about the same?