"..., before 2007, bankers had created numerous convoluted, cross-border financial chains. And while these chains seemed to make the system more efficient and safer in good times, when disaster struck, they produced new risks which took investors by surprise. But should some of those lessons from the world of finance be transposed to the global manufacturing sector? This question hangs over the markets as investors assess the longer-term impact of the Japanese disaster. With many Japanese factories facing temporary or partial closure, the earthquake has left investors facing an uncomfortable truth: in the modern world, it can be tough to assess how convoluted cross-border linkages really work, in manufacturing as in finance." Source: FT(2011), Japan supply chain risk reverberates globally, FT Online. Required: Discuss steps you would take in assessing supply chain risks faced by Zambian Corporations sourcing their inputs from China and evaluate the benefits of integrating