Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself. Since a company's chief objective is to realize the highest possible year-end profits, any product or service that can be obtained from an independent supplier for less than it would cost the company to provide the product or service on its own should be outsourced.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
If a company decides to use independent suppliers for a product, it can generally exploit the vigorous competition arising among several firms that are interested in supplying that product.
Successful outsourcing requires a company to provide its suppliers with information about its products and plans that can fall into the hands of its competitors and give them a business advantage.
Certain tasks, such as processing a company's payroll, are commonly outsourced, whereas others, such as handling the company's core business, are not.
For a company to provide a product or service for itself as efficiently as an independent supplier can provide it, the managers involved need to be as expert in the area of that product or service as the people in charge of that product or service at an independent supplier are.
When a company decides to use an independent supplier for a product or service, the independent supplier sometimes hires members of the company's staff who formerly made the product or provided the service that the independent supplier now supplies.
我自己错选了E,思考了一下:
E选项:当一个公司决定去用一个供应商,供应商会偶尔雇佣公司先前的员工去制造产品。本选项加强了推理文段,根据结论中的条件,当公司决定外包,这时的情况是:外包成本低于公司自产成本。与此同时,供应商雇佣先前的员工,这些员工对公司情况更熟悉,制造出来的产品与公司自己生产的质量相仿,价格还低于自产,符合利润最大化的条件。
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