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I have chosen to offer incentives for night unloading to reduce congestion during daylight hours and add personnel to have an employee operate the dumps instead of the truck driver (how the clean chip dumps operate with an average of 8 min. turn around); this would involve some capital and extra wages. How could I validate my reasons and I need a way to measure the success of the improvements selected?

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Problem: How could I validate my reasons and I need a way to measure the success of the improvements selected?

Overall Operations Management will be as following:
Various steps and reasoning for Improving Operations and Measuring Improvement of Operations is described below:

The night unloading will have several advantages:

The traffic will be ...

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