Become more self-sufficient by producing major components rather than buying them. produce goods and services with less of everything that goes into the process. keep inventories of finished goods as high as possible. produce a very limited variety of goods.

Become more self-sufficient by producing major components rather than buying them

Explanation:

Let look at company A, known to be one that struggles most of the time to order new parts that they need for operations. When the other company that they depend on to supply them (company A) with such required items fail to provide enough products or manufactured parts timely, then the first company could start recording huge losses in revenue because the inventory depletion would impact the sales volume negatively.  

The only way company A can arrest this situation is by reducing dependency on external suppliers. They would need to do their own –in-house manufacturing which helps them remain self-sufficient and also reduce daily operational costs.  

the investment was $14,174.196

explanation:

a lump sum means that the father of the example made one deposit and leave it be.

we need to know the value of a capital that generated at 4.05% per year during 28 years the sum of $48,613.24

now clearing the formula to solve for capital we got:

and we reach the answer investment = $14,174.20