A Large Automotive After-Market Business Wanted to Improve Its Current

A large automotive after-market business wanted to improve its current situation, which is characterized by excessive inventory, incomplete information, high logistics costs, slow reactions to environmental change, and lost profits at the retail level. Would supply chain management be of any help to the business?

A) Yes, supply chain management is designed to coordinate and integrate all the activities from raw materials to product consumption.
B) No, supply chain management is applicable to only distribution strategies for products being sold to the consumer market.
C) Yes, supply chain management would be very useful because it relies so heavily on benchmarking.
D) No, supply chain management requires an expensive investment of time and resources to make it worthwhile.