There are no downsides to bringing components from other countries. True or False

Operating under a just-in-time production system, Toyota concentrates the assembly of major components in particular regions, which then supply other locations where Toyota concentrates the assembly of end products. This reflects...

• The company loosely coordinates its supply network
• The company disperses supply chain activities
• The company concentrates supply chain activities and loosely coordinates them
• The company centralizes supply chain activities and tightly coordinates them
• The company disperses supply chain activities and tightly coordinates them

Your company wants to take advantage of the growing Asian market and plans to build a manufacturing facility in the southeast region to support the expansion. Management identified a set of critical factors to evaluate the prospective location, as shown in the table below; they used a rating system of 1 (least desirable) to 100 (most desirable) to evaluate each factor.

Factor	Weight	Rating Scale (1-100)
		Taiwan	Thailand	Singapore
Technology	0.15	85	95	40
Level of Education	0.15	85	20	95
Economic aspects	0.20	70	65	75
Social aspects	0.10	85	50	85
Political risk	0.40	30	70	70

First, identify which location you would recommend based on the current scores shown in the table.

If political unrest broke out in Singapore, lowering the political risk score for that location to 60, would this change your original conclusion? Indicate your original and updated recommendation, respectively, based exclusively on the multi-criteria scores.

• Thailand and Taiwan
• Singapore and Thailand
• Singapore and Singapore
• Thailand and Singapore
• Taiwan and Taiwan