Essay about Mat 540 Quiz 5

Get the most out of the constraint when it is identified, or “exploit” it. The constraint must always be managed in specifically working this part of the process.

Scotts Miracle-Gro is the largest company in the North American lawn and garden industry. It is also the world’s leading supplier and marketers of consumer products for do it yourself lawn and garden care, including products for professional horticulture. This paper is mainly centered on two decisions which include either to make and or buy. In other words whether Scotts Miracle-Gro should keep manufacturing in Temecula located in California, outsource production to a contract company in China or to build a company in China and relocate production there. The paper will be divided into three parts in

The manufacturing manager now feels that the competitors’ valves are of equal quality as that of Wilkerson. Currently, the competitors have not changed their prices and GM has been maintained at 35%.

Steve was concerned about the potential loss of customers and suggested that Prairie Winds purchase a second pasta production machine for $40 million. The company had excess space in the existing facility that could be used for the new machinery. However, this space currently was leased to another company on a year-to-year basis and was generating annual rent of

7. (10 pts.) Westinghouse and General Electric are competing on the newest version of clothes washer and dryer combinations. Two pricing strategies exist: price high or price low. The profit from each of the four possible combinations of decisions is given in the following payoff matrix:

There will be many different constraints in the database. An example of a constraint is one if the students' GPA will have to be between 0.00 and 4.00. Another example would be that each class can only have one instructor. There would be a constraint on the social security number ensuring that there are only nine numbers and in the format is xxx-xx-xxxx, and each individual number would be between 0 and 9. There would be a constraint for the telephone numbers as well. Each individual number would be between 0 and 9 in the format of (xxx)-xxx-xxxx.

2. This is only company in whole world which provides high quality product and certified by ISO22000 HACCP.

ELEVATE the system 's constraint(s). 5. WARNING!!!! If in the previous steps a constraint has

B) if the right-hand side value of the constraint increases by 1 unit, the objective function value will decrease by 5 units

ML had developed a policy of selling manual machines and renting automatic machines. Manual machines did not cost much, did not require service, and could be modified to attach different fasteners inexpensively. Automatic machines were rented on an annual basis because they would have been more expensive to sell and it provided annual income to ML. However, about 700 of the rented machines were returned each year. During the time that machines were in inventory, ML would modify the machines to attach different fasteners. This was expensive with an average cost per modification of $2000. If all 700 machines were modified during a given year this would have cost $1.4 million per year. It was also industry practice to provide preventative maintenance and

Another huge expense the company had was all the improvements they were making. It would cost the company about $500,000 per year, since they did not use a contract manufacturer. They estimated they lost a total of $200,000 per year. Because of all the costs, Scotts is experiencing difficulties at the Temecula plant. They are considering the possibility of completely outsourcing the spreaders manufacturing and assembly to China to save costs. Scotts Miracle-Gro already has experience in outsourcing. They have already outsourced the most complex components of the spreaders to China. They are considering completely outsourcing the company in hopes that they will profit from the move. In doing so, they would have to shut down the Temecula plant and, by closing the plant, Bob Bawcombe, will lose all the skilled laborers he has trained and his efforts to keep them by hiring temporary workers, will have gone to waste. Another issue to complete outsourcing is there “in-molding labeling” technology. If Scotts decides to outsource, it needs to provide the contract manufacturer with the equipment and the know-how to perform “in-molding labeling”, if not, they must remove the feature from its spreaders. An additional concern with this plan is if they do offer the training and equipment, it is questionable that the manufacturer will be able to use the current mold from Temecula. They would need 10 molds at $40,000 each and each mold lasts approximately five years.

The company has to decide amongst various available combinations of Standard Compressors and Light Weight Compressors so as to maximize profits.

Being able to increase productivity and revenues has always been the greatest challenge of any manager, and the manager of RL Wolfe, a plastic pipe manufacturer, was not an exception. Because of the low-efficiency percentage RL Wolfe had in comparison to their its competitors, John Amasi, director of Production and Engineering , had no other choice then came up with a new way of improving RL Wolfe production methods.

The figure shows the market for books before and after an excise tax is introduced. The tax on books is ________, buyers pay ______ of tax per book, and the governments tax revenue is ________ a week.

Joe Williams es el presidente de la Nichols company, que fabrica tres productos primarios y cuenta con más de 355 empleados. La empresa ha tenido algunos problemas con su cadena de suministro en los últimos meses y, por lo tanto, se ha visto afectado el servicio al cliente debido a que no puede cumplir con sus pedidos a tiempo.