Operations management
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Where a manufacturing buffer beats idle capacity on cost
Sampling plans: how much inspection is enough before shipping
Yield loss that only shows up at the last inspection station
Customer complaints route around the quality system when sales owns the account
Allocating scarce machine hours across two product lines
Lot sizing on a stamping line and the setup time that decides it
Shutting in a pipeline for maintenance costs more than the maintenance itself
Capacity planning based on a demand forecast the sales team wrote
Calculating takt time for a mixed-model assembly cell
Where the bottleneck really sits on a three-shift production line
Allocating shared warehouse space across products distorts every margin
Safety stock levels set by gut feel and never revisited
Lead times quoted by suppliers are negotiated numbers not capabilities
Expediting fees are a symptom of bad planning rather than a fix
Who has the authority to shut the plant before the CEO answers the phone?
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