Answer:
to avoid debt or financial problems :)
There are many possible reasons but the two most common were christian missionaries who conducted religious missions all over the world in order to convert people, and the second being direct conquest like what Spaniards did in South American countries.
As for the article I found this source: http://revistascientificas.udg.mx/index.php/MYN/article/view/6646/6179
To achieve the summary, you should at least read some part of the article and briefly explain how they identify that efficiency, responsiveness, flexibility, quality of food and quality in the process, and deterministic and business models are those that are often used to measure the performance of a supply chain. (at least one of them)
The supply chain can be defined as a network of independent organizations and connected with mutual work and cooperation between them in order to control, manage and improve the flow of materials and information from the supplier to the consumed. The emphasis on measuring the performance and efficiency of supply chains in order to identify in what or what links are the problems and how to solve them.
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