The Twilight Clothing Company makes jeans for children. Management prepared a forecast of sales (in pairs of jeans) for next year and now must prepare a production plan. The company has traditionally maintained a level workforce strategy. Currently, all eight workers have been with the company for a number of years. Each employee can produce 2,000 pairs of jeans during a 2-month plan- fling period. Every year management authorizes overtime in periods 1, 5, and 6, up to a maximum of 20 percent of regular-time capacity. Management wants to avoid stock outs and backorders and will not accept any plan that calls for such shortages. It also does not want to consider vacation scheduling as a supply option. At present, finished goods inventory holds 12,000 pairs of jeans. The demand forecast is as follows:

a. Is it feasible to hold the workforce constant, assuming that overtime is used only in periods 1,5, and 6?Explain.

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Period Sales Period Sales 2 6,500 25,000 15,000 19,000 32,000 29,000