Operations Management
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Author: William J Stevenson
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Chapter 8, Problem 1TS
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To determine: What trade-offs are involved in deciding a single large, centrally located facility instead of smaller, dispersed facilities.
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A trade-off is a strategy of diminishing or relinquishing at least one possible result in return for expanding or getting other attractive results to amplify the aggregate return or adequacy under given conditions.
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Operations Management
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