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FL Company produces potato chips. The firm has 38 plants around the U Country and over 48,000 employees are working for the firm. The company focuses more on the firm operations, from product designing, meeting changing consumer preferences, adjusting changing consumers’ costs, quality, supply chain management and maintenance.

FL Company quality inspection begins at the farm in procuring potatoes and continues the inspection till the final product is packed and dispatched to the market.  FL Company would make sure that they have a proper product mix, effective maintenance and quality inspection to be done.

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To determine: How decisions of operations management are applied in FL Company.

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