Advances in Business, Operations, and Product Analytics: Cutting Edge Cases from Finance to Manufacturing to Healthcare

12. Charleston Rigging¹

Thomas McCue, Duquesne University

In early January 2014, Robert Keyes, the owner of Charleston Rigging, began to think about expanding his business. Charleston Rigging was a small, privately held company located in Charleston, South Carolina. It had two main divisions. One manufactured and sold chains, wire rope, and frames used to unload and load containers in the maritime industry. The other division was a metal fabricating shop where they did metal work, forging, and other kinds of custom metal work on a job-by-job basis. Several years ago, Robert had purchased an old warehouse adjacent to his present site to be used as a storage facility for finished goods inventory. Over the past five years, Charleston Rigging began ...