A specifies how supply management will (1) support the desired competitive business-level strategy and (2) complement other functional strategies.

Supply Management Strategy

Explanation:

strategies that look at desired competitive business level in other to improve the product quality by increasing the innovation rate and reducing time to market.            

Supply Management Strategy

Explanation:

A Supply Management Strategy specifies how supply management will (1) support the desired competitive business-level strategy and (2) complement other functional strategies

Supply chain management involves the movement of products and services from suppliers to distributors..

The major functions involved in Supply chain management are the procurement of raw materials, product development, marketing, operations, distribution, finance, and customer services. Customers are an integral part of Supply chain management . All this needs a strategy for implementation.

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.