An order fulfillment process has demand for three order types during the next 4 weeks, as shown in Table 5.20. The assignment of activities to workers and processing time for each activity are shown in Table 5.21. All workers have 40 h/week available to work on this process. Use the TOC principles to find the number of orders of each type that should be processed to maximize total profit.

TABLE 5.18 Routing, Demand, and Profit Data for Exercise 5.17 Job Routing Demand (Units/Week) Profit Margin ($)
A 1, 4, 7 80 10 B 2, 3, 5, 6 100 15 C 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 120 20 TABLE 5.19 Activity Time and Resource Assignment Data for Exercise 5.17 Activity Time (Min) Resource 1 20 R1 2 12 R2 3 7 R2 4 18 R1 5 9 R3 6 29 R3 7 8 R3 TABLE 5.20 Routing, Demand, and Profit Data for Exercise 5.18 Order Type Activities Demand Profit Margin ($)
Basic 1, 2, and 5 150 125 Special 1, 3, 4, and 6 110 175 Deluxe 2, 4, 5, and 6 90 200 TABLE 5.21 Activity Time and Resource Assignment Data for Exercise 5.18 Activity Time (Min) Employee 1 24 Anne 2 18 Anne 3 25 Meg 4 27 Joe 5 15 Joe 6 14 Meg