Please choose one answer for each part and clearly clarify the chosen answer

Part A::

Given the high opportunity to affect value during the need identification and specification stages, it is essential that supply considerations are brought to bear on decisions during these two stages. This is fundamental in value analysis/value engineering. ___________________ helps assure that what is specified is also procurable and represents good value.

A))Employ empowerment

B))Early supply and supplier involvement

C))Purchasing by brand

D))Market research

Part B::

Services range from highly tangible (a construction services provider builds a building) to highly intangible (a speaker delivers a speech). Intangible services cannot be stored. It cannot be requisitioned from inventory. In addition, service delivery involves some form of customer interaction. Variability in customer needs and expectations can create quality problems, especially when the service outcome is difficult to specify. The inability to store services:

A))makes it easier to acquire services than goods.

B))means timing is non-critical to successful service acquisition.

C))creates quality assurance difficulties.

D))is of little importance at the time of supplier selection.

Part C::

_____________ refers to a reduction in the number of sizes and designs. It is a selective and commercial problem, an attempt to determine the most important sizes, for instance, of a product and to concentrate production or use on these wherever possible.

A))Modernization

B))Simplification

C))Optimization

D))Specification