EBK OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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Author: Stevenson
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Chapter 8, Problem 2CTE
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To determine: The key factors that owners might investigate before making a final decision and what trade-offs would there be in opening one additional site versus opening multiple sites.
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A trade-off is a strategy of diminishing or relinquishing at least one attractive result in return for expanding or getting other attractive results to amplify the aggregate return or adequacy under given conditions.
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