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Discussion Question number 2 on page 397 in Chapter 16 of Operations Management, Contemporary Concepts and Cases (Fourth Edition) by Roger G. Schroeder has a typographical error of omission which is questioned by many online business students who use the textbook and are asked by their instructors to answer this discussion question which should read:

"Why is dependent demand history irrelevant for the management of raw material and work-in-process inventories?"

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