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Fabtek, one of the first companies to provide titanium products for industrial use, is at a crossroads and needs to make a quick decision on which one of four orders to accept and how it should bid on them. In a perfect world, they would be able to pick up more than one order but, despite expansions in the past few years, capacity constraints and poor planning have wreaked havoc with their shop schedule and they can only fit one of the four. Each order represents a different mix of customer needs, labor, material and manufacturing talents and therefore comparability among them is difficult. They definitely need to be very selective in choosing the order. The easiest way to summarize their current situation is by looking at their operating philosophy which is “to make money by moving titanium”. They have simply stopped delivering on that basic philosophy and this is due to several reasons.
On the manufacturing side, they have a critical level of backlog in their shops,......

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