North of Seven Company Has a Bottleneck Operation That Slows

question 54

Multiple Choice

North of Seven Company has a bottleneck operation that slows production. Which of the following tools or approaches could the firm use to determine the most cost-effective ways to eliminate this problem?

• A)Linear programming.
• B)Theory of constraints.
• C)Decision-tree diagrams.
• D)Payoff matrices.
• E)Strategic path analysis (SPA).

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