Operations management
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Customer complaints route around the quality system when sales owns the account
Lot sizing on a stamping line and the setup time that decides it
Allocating scarce machine hours across two product lines
Where a manufacturing buffer beats idle capacity on cost
Calculating takt time for a mixed-model assembly cell
Shutting in a pipeline for maintenance costs more than the maintenance itself
Sampling plans: how much inspection is enough before shipping
Capacity planning based on a demand forecast the sales team wrote
Safety stock levels set by gut feel and never revisited
Where the bottleneck really sits on a three-shift production line
Yield loss that only shows up at the last inspection station
Warehouse slotting decisions decide whether a picker walks eight kilometers a shift or three
Scheduling maintenance without stopping the line
Activity based costing rarely survives its own implementation cost
Lead times quoted by suppliers are negotiated numbers not capabilities
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