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Miami WindSails wants to export but, as a small family business, is cautious, particularly with respect to financial risk. What is a strategic step that you would advise Miami WindSails to take to increase its probability of exporting successfully?

Dr. Eli Goldratt feels that the goal of a firm is to make useful products efficiently.

Which of the following best illustrates the globalization of production?

A work center is a physical area of the business in which productive resources are organized and work is completed.

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