Operations Management, Student Value Edition & Student Cd For Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780133407983
Author: HEIZER, Jay
Publisher: Pearson College Div 2013-03-08
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Chapter 13, Problem 16P
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To determine: The minimum cost using transportation method.
Introduction: Aggregate planning using transportation method helps to attain the minimum cost with the optimal plan. The major advantage of transportation method is to achieve the optimal solution using optimal plans.
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A company is considering to invest in eight projects. The estimated cost of each project, the perceived priority points, the estimated number of new jobs each project would create are provided in the Table 1.
Table 1
Project
Cost ($)
Priority Points
New Jobs
X1
X2
X3
X4
X5
X6
X7
X8
5000
4500
600
2000
6000
800
3200
2500
3176
2774
3513
2928
4607
862
3829
2708
5
1
2
1
3
1
7
2
4. The company wants to create at least 8 new jobs from these projects.
5. Only one of the two projects, i.e., X3 and X5 should be funded at this time but not both.
6. The company believes that if it decides to invest in project X7 then it should also invest in project X8, and vice versa.
[DO NOT SOLVE THE ABOVE MODEL YOU DEVELOPED IN QUESTION 1 (b).…
QUESTION THREEa) Zambia Breweries has a backlog of 250 crates of Fanta drinks at the end of December. The demand of Fanta drinks is expected to be 400 crates in January, 500 crates in February and 550 crates in March. Each worker can produce 50 crates of drinks per month with regular wage costing the company K10 000 per worker per month. Hiring cost has been calculated to be K25 000 per. Hiring cost has also been calculated to be K50 000 per worker. Backlog cost have been determined to cost the company K250 per worker. There are no cost associated with carrying the inventory.
Develop a level of production plan (aggregate plan) and determine the cost.
b) Explain why aggregate planning is necessary in production and operation management.c) Define the meaning and what happens at each of these aggregate capacity planning;i) Matching Demand approachii) Level Capacity approach.
QUESTION:
Present a closing statement explaining the benefits to Stayer of applying activity-based costing to its R&D activity for both in-house and outside charging purposes.
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Operations Management, Student Value Edition & Student Cd For Operations Management
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