Customers currently link cisco\'s website to configure, price, and order its net

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Customers currently link cisco's website to configure, price, and order its networking equipment. Cisco then sends orders back and across the Internet to producers and assemblers including Celestica, Flextronics, and Solectron. Products are built and tested to Cisco's standards, sometimes with procedures run remotely by Cisco. Most are then drop-shipped to buyers, untouched by human hands on Cisco's payroll. The individuals who monitor these transactions and make sure each is performed in a cost effective and timely fashion are engaged in ______

A) Logistics

B)supply chain management

C)Materials handling

D) total distribution cost managment

E) Just-in-time management

Explanation / Answer

A) Supply chain management

it integrates the information from the logistics activites in a supply chain and ensures that the goods and servies to the end customer and helps to place, track and monitor an order and reduce the transportation cost by using the logistics information.

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