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Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a company has previously provided for itself. Vernon, Inc., a small manufacturing company that has in recent years experienced a decline in its profits, plans to boost its profits by outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?
Among the parts of its business that Vernon does not plan to outsource are some that require standards of accuracy too high for most independent suppliers to provide at lower cost than Vernon can.
Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.
Relatively few manufacturers that start as independent suppliers have been able to expand their business and become direct competitors of the companies they once supplied.
Vernon plans to select the independent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.
Attending to certain tasks that Vernon performs relatively inefficiently has taken up much of the time and effort of top managers whose time would have been better spent attending to Vernon's core business.
choice (e) requires the assumption that freeing up top managers' time will somehow contribute to profits - BUT remember that you're looking for the choice that "most strongly supports" the argument. in this case, the other four answer choices are completely irrelevant to the issue, which is the effect of outsourcing on profit..
目标：boost its profits
目标：boost its profits
题目出的不好！看选项之前，预期的答案是：公司的产品售价不变。这样才能保证利润提高。可惜选项里木有~~
错选D，发现有个解释的很到位
This suggests that the independent suppliers are in a position to offer these services at a lower cost. But during the bidding process, there is no certainty that the lowest bid will ACTUALLY be lower than the cost incurred by Vernon. It may just be the lowest of all the bids, but not necessarily lower than Vernon's own cost.
Attending to certain tasks that Vernon performs relatively inefficiently——这一部分正是要outsourcing的
老师 请问D选项逻辑上错误吗？
我的思路：
方案推理 目标-提高利润
方案-外包部分业务给能提供更低成本的供应商
D 通过竞标选择供应商（竞标方式确保供应商的价格更低）
top managers把时间花在小细节上，现在小细节可以被外包出去了，时间就可以花在core business上，自然节省了时间成本，完成boost its profits 【时间成本也是成本，且合理地运用时间可以更有效率地创造更多profit
E是暗含core business的利润更高吗？不然真的觉得不如D好。
D 只是说了plan, 并没有说effect of outsourcing, 也没有说Vernon一定会选择 optimal bid, 可能选择 worse bid;
E 说了 top managers 会 better spend their time, 这个就是 positive effect of outsourcing, 所以更好
A说没外包出去的是什么，没说外包出去的怎么样 - 没外包出去的，不一定就是外包出去的反面
这题说的是外包对V公司的利润是否能够促进。而C说的是外包公司是否会成为竞争对手，这会涉及到多个方面，不单是利润。
E则相对只关乎利润一些。
这题并不是很好。
其实我觉得D更直接相关 投标竞价的方式当然更利于V的reducing cost.
E的脑回路奇特 manager即使花在core business方面多 也不代表就一定能提高利润
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方案推理。
目：to boost its profits
方：outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself
(A) 讨论对象不对，我们现在讨论的是要外包出去的部分
(B) So what? 自身是外包公司不影响再外包出去一些业务。
(C) 我们的目标是：to boost its profits. 而选项中expand their business and become direct competitors of the companies they once supplied这种战略决策上的问题影响因素太多，最后的profits可说不准。
(D) 无关
(E) 对的。目前那些七零八碎的业务已经影响到了公司核心业务的正常进行和发展，那么外包就变得非常有必要了。
(e) is better than (a) or (c) because it's the only one of those three that has a reasonably direct bearing on vernon's ability to boost profits.
C选项没有竞争者也不一定就能 boost its profits
E选项专注于核心业务，和boost its profits有直接的联系，如果核心业务都不能提升利润…还叫什么核心业务（doge脸）
A不对可能是因为它说的没有外包部分的内容。没有外包的标准不是一定和外包部分标准相反。
方案
outsourcing是外包。。
错选A，没有直接提及方案和目标的关系，精度要求高成本无法降低的项目不外包和外包能提高利润没有关系。
E，把那些不赚钱的外包出去，让经理们集中精力在赚钱的核心业务上，就能提高利润。
目的是 boost its profit
profit=revenue-cost
已经说明outsourcing can provide at lower cost
outsourcing同时还能减少manager原本可以花在核心业务上的时间
更关注核心业务 revenue更有可能增大
综合在一起 可以boost the profit
这是方案推理吗？
yeah
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E的逻辑推理真的是。。。。。。。