The following data represents the number of home runs that Ryan Howard, a Major League Baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies, hit over a six-year period

If your goal was to construct a network in which all points were connected and the distance between them was as short as possible, the technique that you would use is

A) shortest-route. B) maximal-flow. C) shortest-spanning tree. D) minimal-flow. E) minimal-spanning tree.

The main purpose of a global supply-chain network is to ________

A) eliminate the need for distribution intermediaries B) consolidate the number of freight forwarders C) maximize a firm's competitive advantage D) re-organize a firm's corporate structure