Orion Steel is the chief provider of metals to Accline Cars, which manufactures twomodels of vehicles-cars and large buses. Accline dealers sell the firm's cars to individualcitizens, but buses are sold directly to government entities. In such a distribution channel, which of the following would be considered a vertical conflict?A. a conflict between Orion Steel and Accline CarsB. a conflict between Orion Steel and Accline dealersC. a conflict between two Accline car dealersD. a conflict between Accline dealers and government entitiesE. a conflict between Accline Cars and its dealers

We know a vertical conflict refers to a kind of conflict between two different people in the same channel of sales, in which they are not on the same level.

The conflict between Accline cars and its dealers is a conflict in the same chain, in between two different people, and at two different positions.

This clearly demonstrates that the conflict is in between the supplier and the dealer, within the same chain representing a vertical chain.