Toyota and its suppliers have a relationship in which Toyota encourages suppliers to modernize their facilities and provides them with technical and financial assistance to do so. It also promotes longer-term contracts with suppliers and enables engineers in the supplier companies to have better communication with Toyota. This is an example of a(n)
a. worldwide product divisional structure.
b. functional structure.
c. SBU multidivisional structure.
d. strategic network.
Answer: strategic network.