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Planning with limiting factors

Introduction

Firms face many constraints on their activity and plan accordingly:
Examination questions will focus on the problem of scarce resources
that prevent the normal plan being achieved.

For example, a firm is facing a labour shortage this month due to sickness and, as a
result, cannot produce the number of units that it would like to.

How should its production plan be revised?

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