Accounting, Chapters 1-13
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Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
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Chapter 20, Problem 20.23EX
To determine
Lean Manufacturing
The main objective of lean manufacturing is to yield products with high quality, low cost, and immediate availability. In attempting to achieve this objective many producers have applied lean manufacturing.
To Explain: The way in which the managers would be responded.
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