I have been recently looking over your company that makes two different types of cookies, sugar and chocolate chip cookies which are always in demand. What a great product to sell, everyone loves cookies. But as of recently, I went over your numbers and found some data that you should be aware of. It seems to be that there may be some constraints and extraneous constraints that may limit cookie production. The constraints include how many cookies are being produced each day, sugar usage, mixing and finishing time. The extraneous constraint is the number of cookies being produced each day since its irrelevant to the other processes. Therefore, the first four constraints are binding which means they have reached their limit, they are pinned. They don’t have the capacity to change unless you regulate the production process differently in order to …show more content…
With this model, you’d be able to produce 220 sugar cookies and 240 chocolate chip cookies to reach the maximum revenue of 690 dollars. However, you can also opt to produce 100 sugar cookies and 480 chocolate chip cookies for a profit of 690 dollars. If you were to choose the second model there would be an increased number of slack, meaning that all of your supplies would not be used up. You can also sell the sugar cookies for $1.50 and 65 cents per chocolate chip cookie, you’d produce 100 sugar cookies and 480 chocolate chip cookies. Once again, slack would be increased since you did not use all of the sugar you have. You would have 30 pounds of sugar left over each day therefore you’d waste around 480 ounces of sugar every day that could be used if you were to change something else in the production line. It would be fine if it was some that fell on the floor or a messy cook but that is not the case here. You may be want to cut down the amount of sugar you purchase so you don’t suffer a
The main goal of the Cookies unit was to solve the Unit Problem. The unit problem introduced us to the Woos, the owners of a cookie bakery. The Woos want to find the most profitable combination of plain and iced cookies to bake and sell in their store. We were given several constraints for this problem. According to the Woo’s recipes, a dozen normal cookies requires one pound of cookie dough, and a dozen iced cookies requires .7 pounds of cookie dough. The Woo family only has 110 pounds of cookie dough in stock, which will affect the number of cookies that can be made. The iced cookies also need icing, obviously. A dozen of iced cookies required .4 pounds of icing and the Woos only have 32 pounds of icing in stock.
We decided to decrease the price of mountain bike production from $134 per bike to $108. The difference of $26 for 11,000 units results in a saving of almost $300,000. In the meanwhile, we also decided to dump our finish goods inventory, incurring a loss of $175,000. We decided to increase our capacity from 20,000 to 27,500 and efficiency from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. We want to avoid increasing capacity significantly in order to avoid low efficiency. At the same time we want to keep our wastage at a minimum. We reduced our retail margin for the bike and sports store to 20% while reducing the discount stores to 27%. These new retail margins
A long-time friend insists that Natalie has to somehow include cookies in her business plan. After a series of brainstorming sessions, Natalie settles on the idea of operating a cookie-making school. She will start on a part-time basis and offer her services in
With the increasing trend in healthy diet preference, the underlying drivers of change of competition in premium chocolate industry at the strongest level are the buyers’ preferences for differentiated, refined products, instead of standardized ordinary products that are no longer demanded. In addition, baby boomers - generation with their disposable income are spending a lot on high quality premium chocolates.
Thus, cost per dozen of labor is decreasing. This can be applied to orders of more than two dozens as well. Hence, Kristen 's Cookie Company can give discounts to customers giving orders of more than one dozen because of the economies of scale as shown above.
If the business sales less, it will make a loss, if it sells more, it will be a profit. The break-even point in volume is the point where the plant 's fixed expenses are covered. In the case that Maria considers Aunt Connie 's Cookie shop cannot sell that much, she may ensure viability of the plant by (1) trying to reduce the fixed costs (e.g. renegotiating rent, reducing telephone bills, insurance, etc.), (2) trying to reduce variable costs (e.g. purchasing at lower cost the ingredients used to make cookies), or (3) increasing the selling price of the cookies. Any of these strategies can reduce the break-even point in volume. In the worst of the scenarios, Maria should not buy the peanut butter cookie plant.
The bottleneck operation would be the speed of operation, which is time you spend in preparing and baking. The speed with which you can produce cookies depends on the cycle time of baking. If we can rent another oven, it will increase our efficiency in order to make more cookies with lower cost. Because mixer can mix ingredients for up to three dozens cookies, each oven can hold a tray per time. This change would give us solution for production constraints. After increasing capacity of oven, it will make us start our new orders every 5 minutes and 7.5 dozens per hour. So we are willing to pay $200-$300 to rent an extra oven.
The name of the recipe I will be making is Mexican hot chocolate cookies. The reason I chose Mexican hot chocolate cookies is I find this cookie super unique in taste and texture compared to other cookies. It is fairly simple to make. I learned how to make these cookies with my mother. It was not for a special occasion, we just wanted to try a new recipe. Our family often packages the cookies, three per bag, to take to the military base and distribute to the security forces folks on duty. They really appreciate being thought of. They often tease my mother saying it has been too long since she brought them by. There are stories of people hiding them from their spouse or family members. The recipe originally appeared on Martha Stewart’s website. My mother made some changes to the recipe along the way.
In the case of more than 3 dozens of cookies we have to consider the fact that the mixing bowl can only hold for up to three dozens of cookies. Thus, we have 12+4*(2+1+2)+1=33 min of valuable time with costs of ((33/60)*L)/4=0,1375. So the maximum is reached when we produce up to 3 dozens, but we should give discounts on 3+ orders, too.
Cookie Shake is a partnership organization that includes five members. We provide cookies, milkshakes and cookie sandwiches. Every member had an important role in the project so no one could be left out in anything. The report will include the evaluation and the analysis of our project.
It is said that workplace bullying in the UK and Europe is increasingly recognized as a major workplace stressor. Despite of this, it is remain problematic, among targets and within organizations. This paper reports a qualitative study explore experiences of bullying among ten British women targets, all public sector professional. Data were composed using in-depth interviews and analyzed using grounded theory methods. Finding showed that these targets struggled to identify and cope with bullying. Minimizing intrapersonal difficulties; preserving self; maintaining commitments to professional and organizational values and cultures; sickness explanations; and naming the problem are the major themes or processes that are identified from the
Growth of French cookie market is driven by a rising interest in quality rather than increasing volume.
When describing the cookie production process for Lew-mark baking, it is best described as using the batch processing system. The batch processing system can best be described as the execution of a series of programs ("jobs") on a computer without human interaction. “Batch Processing is used when a moderate
Although grandiose questions about life are a standard part of human maturation, many children and young adults with a stable family can answer these questions without drastically changing their lives. Those with steady influences often have authoritative guidance to navigate these uncertainties. Philip “Pip” Pirrip of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, however, is an orphan reared in a provincial and simple life. He lacks an intellectual father figure to answer these questions, so he is forced to elucidate his own solutions. The closest substitute to a father is Joe Gargery, Pip’s genuine and well-meaning brother-in-law. Pip’s lack of a father leads to uncertainty in his identity and questions regarding where his major influences should lie. In determining these influences, Pip seeks to redeem himself from Joe to higher society, but later does an about-face as he wishes to be redeemed by Joe.
What are the forces driving an organization to shift to analytics and be known as an analytical competitor? Analytics is when a particular organization uses large amount of data, predictive modeling, fact-based management, statistical analysis, quantitative analysis, and explanatory reasons in order to drive their business decisions and actions successfully (Harris 12). When an organization is trying to be analytically competitive, they are using analytics systematically and extensively to think outside the box to perform an execution to compete against other businesses.