Question

The HBR article titled “Supply Chain Management, Hong Kong Style” illustrated the importance of dispersed manufacturing. Please give an example to show what “dispersed manufacturing” means.

Answer 1

Dispersed manufacturing reduces the cost of production by utilizing locally available resources.

Step-by-step explanation:

Dispersed manufacturing allows one to locate manufacturing plants at different locations to allow dispersed manufacturing and using intervention of technology i.e cloud computing.

This allows use of locally available resources at different locations for manufacturing thereby reducing the overall cost of production.