A grocery store purchases fresh fish every day from its supplier. It has ordered 100 pounds of

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A grocery store purchases fresh fish every day from its supplier. It has ordered 100 pounds of fish each day, but the weight actually received varies from day to day with an average range of 6 pounds. Over the past five days it received the following weights of fish: 106, 94, 102, 100, and 97 pounds.
a. Using this five-day sample, is the process of the fish supplier in control in average and range?
b. How can the supplier more carefully control the process to provide nearly 100 pounds of fish each day?
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Operations Management in the Supply Chain Decisions and Cases

ISBN: 978-0073525242

6th edition

Authors: Roger Schroeder, M. Johnny Rungtusanatham, Susan Goldstein

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