Scenario - Jenkins and Jones Corporation Michael Jenkins and Emma Jones started the Jenkins and Jones Corporation in 1976 in Kansas, USA. The initial goal of this company was to serve customers throughout the United States. Since the company's inception it has grown at an outstanding rate. It now serves online customers as well as customers in ten foreign nations. Jenkins and Jones is now looked at as the industry's benchmark company due to its superior supply chain management skills. Its practices and techniques are used by many other organizations in the industry to improve their own supply chain management skills. If Jenkins and Jones would decide to maintain its product production on a domestic basis, there would be certain advantages the company could expect from making this decision. Which one of the following would not be considered an advantage of domestic production?

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Scenario - Jenkins and Jones Corporation Michael Jenkins and Emma Jones started the Jenkins and Jones Corporation in 1976 in Kansas, USA.  The initial goal of this company was to serve customers throughout the United States.  Since the company's inception it has grown at an outstanding rate.  It now serves online customers as well as customers in ten foreign nations.  Jenkins and Jones is now looked at as the industry's benchmark company due to its superior supply chain management skills.  Its practices and techniques are used by many other organizations in the industry to improve their own supply chain management skills. If Jenkins and Jones would decide to maintain its product production on a domestic basis, there would be certain advantages the company could expect from making this decision.  Which one of the following would not be considered an advantage of domestic production?

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Domestic production does not guarantee that the company will not face competition. In fact, competition can come from both domestic and international sources. The other options (A, B, D, and E) are considered advantages of domestic production as they allow the company to have better control over various aspects of the supply chain.