A certain custom engraving shop has traditionally had orders for between 1 and 50 units of whatever a customer orders. Typically, a single worker would work all of the tasks needed for these traditional orders.

A large company has contacted this shop about engraving league-team-individual reward plaques ( which are essentially identical to each other - but leagues have different logos, teams different names, etc.). It wants the shop to place a bid for this order. The expected volume is 12,000 units per year and will most likely last four years.

1. To successfully bid ( low enough price) for such an order, what will the shop likely have to do?
2. Describe a manufacturing process from the chapter that might be considered for the new process.
3. Mention the advantages and disadvantages of the process you describe.