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A seed company has a design capacity of 80 metric tonnes per day. It's effective capacity, However, is 64metric tonnes per day, and it's actual output is 62 metric tonnes per day. The operations manager would like to increase the number of Metric tonnes per day. Which of the following factors would you recommend that the operations manager investigate: quality problems, absenteeism, or
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