Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Operations Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (12th Edition)
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Chapter 6, Problem 3DQ
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Interpretation: The intensity and the application of the pressures posed by the lean system on the operations of a company needs to be determined.
Concept Introduction:There are pressures posed by the lean system on the supply chain operations of a company; and they might be resulting as process failures due to inventory shortages, or unavailability of labor, and such other.
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