Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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ISBN: 9781478623069
Author: Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Chapter 3.3, Problem 13P
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To think critically about:Reasons not to explicitly recognize variation.

Introduction: Variation is regarded as anything will triggers the system to deviate from its regulatory state of activities, however, the variation is not something which is unforeseen, this is something which is predicted within the scope of the system.

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