Which of the following refers to one of the two ways distribution channels create efficiencies by reducing the number of transactions necessary for goods to flow from many different manufacturers to a large number of customers? A. Disintermediation (of the channel of distribution) B. Wholesaling C. Transportation and storage D. Creating assortments E. Rack jobbing

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?