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1)  List some products in your personal or family “inventory.” How do you manage them? (For instance, do you constantly run to the store for milk? Do you throw out a lot of milk because of spoilage?) How might the ideas in Chapter 12 change your way of managing these SKUs?

2)  Identify a goods-producing or service-providing organization and discuss how it might make aggregate planning decisions using the variables described in Exhibit 13.3 (p. 283).

3)  Provide an argument for or against adopting a chase strategy for a major airline call center.

“A chase demand strategy sets the production rate equal to the demand in each time period” (Collier& Evans, 2013, pg. 285).