MAC3703 ASSIGNMENT 2 SEMESTER 2 2025 – STEP-BY-STEP CALCULATIONS PROVIDED (DUE 30 SEPTEMBER 2025)

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MAC3703 Assignment 2 Semester 2 Memo | Due 30 September 2025. All questions fully answered. QUESTION ONE (60 MARKS)
XYZF Ltd is a South African factory shop producing clothing for men and women from the age of
16 upwards. XYZF gets all their materials from ABCD Ltd, a local supplier. There are other local
suppliers in the country for the materials used by XYZF Ltd. XYZF does not have its own sewing
machines and rents them in from company X. The clothes produced by XYZF Ltd are sold to
various clothing wholesalers in South Africa, who then supply the local retailers who physically
supply the consumers. XYZF Ltd has its own delivery trucks which delivers the clothes from the
factory straight to the wholesalers’ premises. Company Y uses various courier companies to
deliver the clothes to the local retailers. XYZF
Required:
A. (i) Identify and explain the roles of at least two business ecosystem participants in the current
XYZ Ltd ecosystem, and two in the new ecosystem resulting from the introduction of the online
retail store. (6)