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Business Decision Making, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Business Decision Making, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Dr. Milan Frankl
January 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
158 pages
3h 7m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 15

The Dog Ate My Shipment

(The Inconceivable Is Not So)

Vignette: Avalanches

Avalanches happen regularly in winter in the British Columbia Rockies.53 That morning, news of another avalanche near Lillooet did not attract my attention. Should it have?

I forgot that I had an order of 6 tons of liquid urethane shipped in 55-gallon steel drums on its way by train from Calgary to Vancouver Island via Vancouver and Nanaimo.

I did not count on avalanches.

This latest avalanche near Lillooet cut off the train tracks and destroyed my shipment; moreover, it delayed train traffic by a week. I was facing a factory shutdown because of lack of this essential raw material for my polyurethane hydraulic-seal production process. To compound the problem, ...

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ISBN: 9781948976381