問8
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企業の事業展開における垂直統合の事例として, 適切なものはどれか。
平成29年度 春期 ITパスポート試験 問8
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問 8
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An apparel manufacturer “outsourcing” its inspection work to an affiliated company is outsourcing (external contracting) — carving out one of its own processes to the outside — which is the opposite direction of the integration that brings an external process into one’s own company, so it does not count as vertical integration.
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正解 Vertical integration is a strategy of taking the upstream or downstream stages of the supply chain (value chain) — which runs from the procurement and production of raw materials through to distribution and sales — into one’s own company (by making them subsidiaries, acquiring them, and so on) and running them in an integrated way. In choice イ, a major trading company on the upstream side of the supply chain makes a downstream large retail store its subsidiary in order to expand sales. This is a typical example of integrating different stages of the flow of goods (wholesale → retail) in the vertical direction, so it is an appropriate example of vertical integration, and this is the correct answer.
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A bank acquiring a bank in the “same industry” through M&A to expand its scale is horizontal integration, which brings in a competitor at the same stage of the supply chain; it is not vertical integration that links upstream and downstream.
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Many PC assembly manufacturers adopting a specific manufacturer’s semiconductors and OS is merely the standard procurement (adoption) of parts and technology; they do not make that manufacturer a subsidiary or acquire it to bring the supply chain into their own company, so it does not count as vertical integration.
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- Vertical integration = a strategy of bringing the upstream (procurement, production) or downstream (distribution, sales) stages of the supply chain (value chain) into one’s own company to unify them; by contrast, absorbing a competitor at the same stage is horizontal integration.
- Distinguish that “outsourcing (external contracting)” externalizes a process — the opposite of integration — while “adoption of parts/OS” is mere procurement; neither is integration.
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