The strength of bargaining power forces depends on the availability of substitutes and compared to the size of suppliers or customers.

Your family business uses a secret recipe to produce salsa and distributes it through both smaller specialty stores and chain supermarkets. the chain supermarkets have been demanding sizable discounts, but you do not want to drop your prices to the specialty stores. true or false: the robinson-patman act limits your ability to offer discounts to the chain supermarkets while leaving the price high for the smaller stores. true false

Assume that (i) setups need to be completed first; (ii) a setup can only start once the batch has arrived at the resource, and (iii) all flow units of a batch need to be processed at a resource before any of the units of the batch can be moved to the next resource. process step 1 molding 2 painting 3 dressing setup time 15 min. 30 min. no setup processing time 0.25 min./unit 0.15 min./unit 0.30 min./unit which batch size would minimize inventory without decreasing the process capacity?

Which of the following is not one of the four principles of bottleneck management? a. increasing capacity at non-bottleneck stations is a mirageb. lost time at the bottleneck is lost system capacity. c. release work orders to the system at the bottleneck's capacity pace. d. increased bottleneck capacity is increased system capacity. e. bottlenecks should be moved to the end of the system process.