Prep T1-36

[mitori]

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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?

(A) 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.
(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.
(C) 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.
(D) Vernon plans to select the independent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.
(E) 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.

Ans.E

...我覺得每個都不對耶~~~
該怎麼解呢?

[dibert8]

(A) standards of accuracy 無關
(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier 無關 (or 牴觸 outsourcing)
(C) 無關
(D) 開放式問題 (什麼 bid? 如何 bid?)
(E) V 的高階主管花太多時間在低效率的事業上(i.e.高成本囉!),(如果將這些事業外包)高階主管就可專心在核心事業上.
=> (E)

[chris8888]

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. 因外包給外面公司比自己來要成本低的, 可以提高利潤.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that Vernon's plan will achieve its goal?

(A) 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.
描述某種plan太高而不能 .... 無關, 離題了
(B) Vernon itself acts as an independent supplier of specialized hardware items to certain manufacturers that formerly made those items themselves.
自己也是別人的供應商, 無關
(C) 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.
這一個選項是說, 當初以一個獨立的供應商起家, 最後成為當初他們供應的製造公司的對手, 這樣的公司很少. 好像有5%的支持度, 但是太廣泛了, 有誰會去規劃現在供應自己的供應商怕他們未來會成為競爭者, 所以先僱用他們成為自己的供應商?? 況且就算如此, 也不能保證會有幫助.
過度推論了.
(D) Vernon plans to select the independent suppliers it will use on the basis of submitted bids.
方法, 無關
(E) 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.
讓高階經理專注在核心事業上, 不要搞較沒效率的任務. 把它高給外包廠商卻成本低廉. support

[aqboy[origen]]

題目說 外包之後產品的生產成本比自己生產來的低,所以企業選擇外包某些產品

A選項說 在企業沒有外包的產品裡,因為那些產品本身要求較高的品質,導致無法使外包廠商以較低得成本生產, 所以企業選擇不外包

請問這樣應該有支持題目的計畫吧？？？

[Huang Hsin-Yi]

題目說 外包之後產品的生產成本比自己生產來的低,所以企業選擇外包某些產品

A選項說 在企業沒有外包的產品裡,因為那些產品本身要求較高的品質,導致無法使外包廠商以較低得成本生產, 所以企業選擇不外包

你的結論是反對外包計畫的
題目問哪個支持V計畫的目標,也就是支持外包來減少成本

請問這樣應該有支持題目的計畫吧？？？

[aqboy[origen]]

樓上誤會我的意思了,

我的意思是 因為有些產品本身要求較高的品質,使外包廠商無法以低於企業生產的成本進行外包,所以企業選擇不外包那些要求較高的產品

同理可推==>若外包廠商能夠以低於企業生產的成本進行外包產品,則企業會選擇將那些產品外包

我是這樣想的,這個邏輯關係有錯誤嗎??

[Huang Hsin-Yi]

樓上誤會我的意思了,

我的意思是 因為有些產品本身要求較高的品質,使外包廠商無法以低於企業生產的成本進行外包,所以企業選擇不外包那些要求較高的產品

這一段是A選項講的事實,你的理解沒問題

同理可推==>若外包廠商能夠以低於企業生產的成本進行外包產品,則企業會選擇將那些產品外包

但這一段你已犯了過度推論的問題,A選項並沒有哪句話可推出你的"同理"

我是這樣想的,這個邏輯關係有錯誤嗎??

[aqboy[origen]]

我懂了@@感謝~~

[willyyang]

(A) 把premise (outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself) 用相反的方式再說了一次。

(E) 把成本降低的因素點出來

如果沒有(E)的話，可以選(A)

[julanlu808]

(A) 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.

A選不好的原因是否也和some這個字有關?

[leafage]

(A) 把premise (outsourcing those parts of its business that independent suppliers can provide at lower cost than Vernon can itself) 用相反的方式再說了一次。

(E) 把成本降低的因素點出來

如果沒有(E)的話，可以選(A)

(A) 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.

(A)選項只解釋了那些沒有被outsource出去工作的狀態，並沒有說明outsource出去的工作由independent suppliers是否能提供較低的成本

我覺得如果(A)有提到那些outsource出去的部份的確能提供降低成本的話，是比(E)要來的好的