A South African manufacturer is preparing to launch a new product within six months. Marketing has confirmed customer requirements, engineering has identified several design alternatives, operations has raised concerns about production capacity, and supply management has warned that some material markets are volatile. Senior management wants to avoid late design changes and conflicting departmental priorities. Which action best reflects integration in this situation?

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Create a shared process in which the relevant functions and selected suppliers work jointly and concurrently toward the same launch objective.

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Hold monthly information-sharing meetings between functions while allowing engineering to finalise the design before suppliers are approached.

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Ask each function to submit its own completed requirements to supply management so that one consolidated supplier brief can be issued.

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Give supply management responsibility for comparing supplier quotations after marketing and operations have approved the final launch plan.

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