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CASE  Operations Scheduling US-based multinational corporation, General Electric (GE) developed world class expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement and drug discovery. Its biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies helped clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest. Its operations scheduling was exemplary. The company made parts for its diagnostic equipment in China, Hungary and Mexico and developed the software for them in India.  This model was adopted by the company when it realized that the market for the equipment is limited in low income countries.  It decided to use the Indian facility as a global sourcing base as the Indian facility proved superior to the Mexican facility in meeting global quality standards at a low cost .  This strategy of operations scheduling enabled...