Question: True or False? No explanation needed. But please try your best. Will give excellent ratings if you answer each one :) (f) For products with

True or False? No explanation needed. But please try your best. Will give excellent ratings if you answer each one :)

(f) For products with high delivery costs and many customer options difficult to forecast accurately, an effective supply-chain strategy would be to assemble-to-order and fit deliveries into a pre-specified delivery schedule.

(g) The push-pull boundary is a critical decision in supply chain design. It has little or no effect on end-product marketing, but it has a large impact on supply chain costs and the allocation of costs among stages.

(h) Continuous replenishment is an appropriate strategy for long lead time items with variable demands and transportation economies of scale.

(i) E-commerce has been most successful for products with minor or negligible transportation economies of scale. For products with significant transportation economies of scale, e-commerce profits have been elusive.

(j) Supply chains in which component suppliers produce-to-stock and the downstream companies assemble-to-order have resulted in spectacular business failures.

(k) The shift from bricks-and-mortar to e-commerce engendered difficult business conditions for LTL and parcel shipping companies, depressing their profits.

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