Once Alex got the call from the marketing manager, Johnny Jons, to ask for an order of 1000 model 12 units, they only had 50 units in stock and the shipment date was in two weeks. The optimal decision they took was. negotiate the delivery date and reduce batch sizes to deliver units each week without compromising other orders negotiate delivery date and commit the whole plant to the production of these units commit the entire plant to the delivery of the order without negotiating the delivery date pass on this order and build up inventory for the next order