Operations Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)
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Author: William J Stevenson
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Chapter 12, Problem 10P
Assume that you are the manager of Assembly, Inc. You have just received an order for 40 units of an industrial robot, which is to be delivered at the start of week 7 of your
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Operations Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)
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