Management study | Strategies for increasing operational flexibility: Taming seasonality with annualised hours

In today’s consumer and industrial markets it is increasingly important for manufacturing companies to have flexible production facilities. Customer order patterns in both these sectors have become more uncertain and the reasons behind unpredictable demand more varied

 
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