case ${?}^{7-2}$

stocking Sets

paniel Holbrook, an expediter at the local warehouse for furniture City, sighed as he moved boxes and boxes of inventory to the side to reach the shelf where the particus. He dropped to his hands and knees and nequinted at the inventory numbers lining the bottom row of the shelf. He did not find the number he needed. He worked his way up the shelf until he found the number matching the number on the order slip. Just his luck! The item was on the top row of the shelf! Daniel walked back through the warehouse to find a ladder, stumbling over boxes of inventory littering his path. When he finally climbed the ladder to reach the top shelf, his face crinkled in frustration. Not again! The item he needed was not in stock! All he saw above the inventory number was an empty space covered with dust!

Daniel trudged back through the warehouse to make the dreaded phone call. He dialed the number of Brenda Sims, the saleswoman on the kitchen showroom floor of Furniture City and informed her that the particular light fixture the custome had requested was not in stock. He then asked her if she wante him to look for the rest of the items in the kitchen set. Brend told him that she would talk to the customer and call him back

Brenda hung up the phone and frowned. Mr$.$ Davidson, $h$ customer, would not be happy. Ordering and receiving the cc rect light fixture from the regional warehouse would take at le two weeks.

Brenda then paused to reflect upon business during the $1$ month and realized that over $80$ percent of the orders for kitch sets could not be filled because items needed to complete sets were not in stock at the local warehouse. She also reali that Furniture City was losing customer goodwill and busir because of stockouts. The furniture megastore was gaining a utation for slow service and delayed deliveries, causing cust ers to turn to small competitors that sold furniture directly $f$ the showroom floor.

Brenda decided to investigate the inventory situation a local warehouse. She walked the short distance to the b ing next door and gasped when she stepped inside the house. What she saw could only be described as chaos. Sp allocated for some items were overflowing into the aisl the warehouse while other spaces were completely bare walked over to one of the spaces overflowing with inve