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  1. Define what is meant by a landed cost and explain its relevance for pricing decisions.
  2. Why is top management commitment necessary for successful supply-chain management?
  3. Distinguish among cycle, safety, pipeline, and speculative stock.
  4. What are expatriate workers? What challenges do they face?
  5. Pick three modes of transportation, name the federal agency responsible for safety regulation for each of the modes you picked, and provide a safety-related issue for each mode.
  6. Discuss how the effectiveness and efficiency of order processing can be improved without large expenditures.
  7. What environmentally friendly packaging strategies might a firm adopt?
  8. Describe significant benefits and drawbacks to Six Sigma programs.
  9. Discuss how a nation’s market size might impact international trade and, in turn, international logistics.
  10. Why are some companies hesitant to adopt RFID technology?
  11. Most managers believe that although it is possible to connect logistics decisions to costs, the connection to revenue enhancement is difficult to impossible. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
  12. How do characteristics such as substitutability and product life cycle stage influence the development of customer service goals and objectives?
  13. What is a freight bill? Why should each freight bill be audited?
  14. Discuss the reasons why products might be returned.
  15. Discuss why contract warehousing is a preferred alternative for many organizations.
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Landed cost is a final cost which accounts for the cost of the product at the source added to the transportation cost. The landed cost highly impacts the selling cost and seller's profit margin. At times, the seller sells the product with a free delivery, but in that case it already includes the transportation cost under the landed cost. In case 

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