: When designing a global network, the trade-off between redundancy and efficiency dictates that:

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Efficiency can only be achieved by completely eliminating all inventory globally.

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A highly redundant network is always the cheapest to operate.

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Redundancy and efficiency are mutually exclusive concepts that cannot be balanced.

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Building backup facilities and holding excess inventory (redundancy) protects against international disruptions but sacrifices pure cost efficiency.

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