Gilroy Crackers enjoys a competitive advantage as a cost leader because high demand for its products has allowed it to operate at the minimum efficient scale. Which of the following scenarios would be most concerning to the managers of Gilroy Crackers? A major winter storm shuts down Gilroy's production for several days. Gilroy's most reliable production worker takes a job in another industry. Gilroy's leading competitor develops a new low-sodium product. A wheat shortage raises input costs across the industry.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase

Effective capacity is the: a. capacity a firm expects to achieve given the current operating constraints.b. minimum usable capacity of a particular facility.c. sum of all the organization's inputs.d. average output that can be achieved under ideal conditions.e. maximum output of a system in a given period.