Which one of the following is an advantage of having production facilities to manufacture athletic footwear in all four geographic regions?
O Increased ability to achieve a higher S/Q rating on branded pairs at a lower cost than rivals having production operations in 1, 2, or 3 geographic regions
O Increased ability to reduce companywide spending for TQM/Six Sigma programs because the benefits gained from TQM/Six Sigma expenditures at one production facility are automatically transferred to other production facilities at zero cost
O Increased ability to gain volume discounts on purchases of superior materials and thereby lower the company's costs of using superior materials in producing branded footwear
O Increased ability to lower expenditures for shipping/freight costs from the company's production operations to distribution centers in the various regions-this is because when a company has production operations in all four geographic regions it typically needs to ship fewer pairs of footwear from production facilities in one region to distribution centers in a different region
O Maximum ability to achieve all available production-related economies of scale and thereby achieve a production cost advantage over rivals having production facilities in only 1, 2 or 3 geographic regions