likely to cost the businesses, another problem that may be faced is a business could become over dependent on one supplier and rely on them for all there denim for example, if this supplier was to collapse the the business would not have any other back up supplier to source their denim and a collapse in the supply chain would occur. So don't have all your eggs in one basket, is a rule to work buy.
Being integrated means the critical path will be used better, the critical path is the order of stages in the minimum amount of time for an operation to be complete.
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