Service operations often face more difficulty in capacity planning than their manufacturing counterparts. However, service does have certain advantages that manufacturing often does not. Explain service planning difficulty, and its advantages and disadvantages.

2. Name several behaviors related to capacity planning that you believe would be unethical, and the ethical principle that would be violated for each.
4. What are the primary advantages and limitations of informal graphic and charting techniques for aggregate planning?
6. Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these planning strategies:

a. Maintain a level rate of output and let inventories absorb fluctuations in demand.

b. Vary the size of the workforce to correspond to predicted changes in demand requirements.

c. Maintain a constant workforce size, but vary hours worked to correspond to predicted demand requirement