The use of e-commerce to allow firms to reduce the costs of processing transactions while improving their supply-chain management skills and tightening the control of their inventories is beginning to replace
A) outsourcing.
B) unrelated diversification.
C) de-integration.
D) vertical integration.

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The use of e-commerce allows firms to improve their supply-chain management skills and tighten the control of their inventories, which is a characteristic of vertical integration. E-commerce does not necessarily replace outsourcing, unrelated diversification, or de-integration.

The Use of E-Commerce to Allow Firms to Reduce the Costs