The Purchasing Policy Guidelines of the Southern Supply Inc. indicate that the company is committed to procuring its goods, products, and services from a diversified pool of vendors, contractors, and service providers. Despite these guidelines, Southern’s purchasing manager prefers to maintain a small cadre of suppliers that he knows and trusts.

How would you expect this situation to affect the assessment of Southern’s financial condition and performance?

The-buying manager's-conduct should-be-relied upon to-expand Southern's-hazard by-expanding its-presentation to-potential-supply-deficiencies or-confounded conveyances

Trust in business is an incredibly dubious notion. It depends on the shared fulfillment of included gatherings, and the apparent life span of their relationship. There might be a clouded side to it - regarding "defilement/pay off", "preference", "nepotism" and so forth which may prompt "an underestimated, one-sided demeanor" and in the end bargain "quality" - antagonistically influencing the business' prosperity.  

Presently, given this thought, you may acknowledge why Southern Supply Inc. had a buying approach of acquiring its items/administrations from an expanded pool of specialist co-ops. It is actually as the mainstream saying goes - "One-ought not-put-every one of their-eggs-into-one-bin"  

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

4 i really dont know