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Which of the following creates an environment that is conducive to product and process innovations and to entrepreneurial activity?  

One way to find a bottleneck is to run a capacity resource profile.

One of the daily, delicate balancing acts that logistics managers have to perform involves the trade-off between customer satisfaction and cost to serve.

For a US-based business that has invested $1 billion in China in the year, 2016, would their investment value face translation exposure losses or gains in the year 2021? Explain your rational briefly.

JIT requires a stable production level. When compared to synchronous manufacturing, this is viewed as a negative aspect of JIT.

As an exporter, Horizon Trading wants to be paid before a consignment is shipped. Correspondingly, its importer in Italy, Friggo Imports, wants to pay only upon receipt of the consignment. These conflicting preferences of Horizon Trading and Friggo Imports are most likely a manifestation of

In making any decision that affects inventory size, which of the following costs do not need to be considered?

Which of the following priority rule will minimize the average flow time of jobs and also performwell in other measures such as average lateness

According to the theory of constraints, a capacity-constrained resource (CCR) is one whose utilization is close to capacity and could be a bottleneck if it is not scheduled carefully.

Daily demand for fresh cauliflower in the ZZ Warehouse Store follows normal distribution with mean 100 cartons and s.d. 20 cartons. The ZZ-Warehouse buys at a cost of $50.00 per carton, sells it for $70.00 per carton. Unsold cartons are sold for $20.00 per carton. What is the optimal order quantity, using the single period model?