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Hillier, Gerald J. Imprint Boston : McGraw-Hill, c Physical description 1 v. Available online. The model also enabled the company to foresee future risks and to take measures against undesirable outcomes.

The systematic approach has been effective in convincing investors and employees about the benefits of the changes.

Consequently, "today FedEx is one of the nation's largest integrated, multi-conveyance freight carriers" [p. Electronic trading offered very low costs, which were hard to compete with for full-service firms. With banks, discount brokers and electronic trading firms involved, the competition was fierce.

Merrill Lynch needed an urgent response to these changes in order to survive. The first targeted the clients who want advice from a financial advisor. The clients who would choose this option would be charged at a fixed rate of the value of their assets and would not pay for each trade. The latter pricing option was for the clients who want to invest online and who do not want advice. These self-directed investors would be charged for every trade.

Various factors, including the rise of foreign imports, the increase in customer expectations and the pricing constraints, forced GM to close plants and to incur large financial losses. While trying to copy Japanese production methods directly, GM was suffering from "missing production targets, working unscheduled overtime, experiencing high scrap costs, and executing throughput-improvement initiatives with disappointing results" [p.

The real problems were not understood and the company was continuously losing money while the managers kept disagreeing about solutions. The software kept track of the production events including "machine faults and blocking and starving events" [p. The summary of this data was then transferred to a centralized database, which converted this to workstation- performance characteristics and used in validating the models, determining the bottleneck processes and enhancing throughput.

The dual problem is infeasible. Sell "!! Build Computers! The optimal solution is to purchase a very old car for year 1 and a moderately old one for years 2, 3, and 4.