Loose-leaf for Operations Management (The Mcgraw-hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)
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Author: William J Stevenson
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Chapter 8, Problem 1TS
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To determine: What trade-offs are involved in deciding a single large, centrally located facility instead of smaller, dispersed facilities.
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A trade-off is a strategy of diminishing or relinquishing at least one possible result in return for expanding or getting other attractive results to amplify the aggregate return or adequacy under given conditions.
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Loose-leaf for Operations Management (The Mcgraw-hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)
Ch. 8.5 - Prob. 1RQCh. 8.5 - Prob. 2RQCh. 8.6 - Prob. 1RQCh. 8.6 - Prob. 2RQCh. 8 - Prob. 1DRQCh. 8 - Prob. 2DRQCh. 8 - Prob. 3DRQCh. 8 - Prob. 4DRQCh. 8 - Prob. 5DRQCh. 8 - Prob. 6DRQ
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