Using the volume- variety (or: standardization) classification of process types, what type of process would you...

 

  

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Using the volume- variety (or: standardization) classification of process types, what type of process would you suggest for the following products/services- make sure to explain why you chose this process type 1. Different types of chocolate (mini)eggs, in high demand around this time of the year :) 2. Yearly flu vaccinations 3. A garden design by landscape architect brothers P.I. & N.E. Tree for Sandrine's small city garden. In the Papertray factory, paper notebooks for journaling and notetaking are produced. Currently, the process used to produce those is a work center. the Operations manager has consulted you to help her decide if an assembly line set up would be better. The Marketing manager has proposed that for a lower price (half), sales will almost double. Her boss thinks that is a great prospect and has asked her to arrange it as quickly as she can. She is not sure if that will work out as well as her boss and colleague think, but she needs numbers! She has delivered the information to you as you see in the tables. What will be your recommendation, and why? Current Workcenter notebook sells for fixed cost Workcenter variable cost sales Proposed Assembly line notebook sells for fixed cost Workcenter variable cost projected sales 15.00 9,450.00 6500 4.00 21,375.00 1.50 12500 7.50 per unit per year per unit per year per unit per year per unit per year Using the volume- variety (or: standardization) classification of process types, what type of process would you suggest for the following products/services- make sure to explain why you chose this process type 1. Different types of chocolate (mini)eggs, in high demand around this time of the year :) 2. Yearly flu vaccinations 3. A garden design by landscape architect brothers P.I. & N.E. Tree for Sandrine's small city garden. In the Papertray factory, paper notebooks for journaling and notetaking are produced. Currently, the process used to produce those is a work center. the Operations manager has consulted you to help her decide if an assembly line set up would be better. The Marketing manager has proposed that for a lower price (half), sales will almost double. Her boss thinks that is a great prospect and has asked her to arrange it as quickly as she can. She is not sure if that will work out as well as her boss and colleague think, but she needs numbers! She has delivered the information to you as you see in the tables. What will be your recommendation, and why? Current Workcenter notebook sells for fixed cost Workcenter variable cost sales Proposed Assembly line notebook sells for fixed cost Workcenter variable cost projected sales 15.00 9,450.00 6500 4.00 21,375.00 1.50 12500 7.50 per unit per year per unit per year per unit per year per unit per year

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