A restaurant chain negotiated a new contract with a popular food delivery platform. Starting next year, the
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As an owner of 20 franchises, would like to better understand whether your restaurants are able to prepare the orders received from the delivery platform, before or shortly after the drivers arrive. I collected data on the most recent 16 orders from each restaurant, and recorded in the Excel sheet Q2.xlsx the time elapsed (in minutes) between receiving each order and when each order is ready to be picked-up.
(a) To understand whether some of your restaurants are faster or slower than the others, you generate the X-bar control chart for the preparation times. Is the process in control? Is there any restaurant that is significantly slower than the others?
(b) What would you do to figure out if some of your restaurants are in fact consistently faster than the others?
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Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 978-0134740607
5th edition
Authors: Cecil B. Bozarth, Robert B. Handfield
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