In an 11-week period, a work center produces 1050 standard hours of work. What is the measured capacity of the work center?

A work center has the following open and planned orders for week 4. Calculate the total standard time required (load). Setup Time (hours) Order Run Time Total Time Quantity (hours/piece) (hours)...

A work center has the following open and planned orders for week 4. Calculate the total standard time required (load). Order Quantity Setup Time (hours) Total Time Run Time (hours/piece) (hours)...

Using the following route information, open order information, and MRP planned orders, calculate the load on the work center. Part 123: Routing: Setup time Run time per piece = 3 standard hours per...

Complete the following input/output report. What are the planned and actual backlogs at the end of period? 3 Total 4 Period Planned Input 39 38 35 36 Actual Input 33 33 40 31 Cumulative Variance...

If the liabilities are $4,000,000 and the owners equity is $1,200,000, what are the assets worth?

If the annual cost of goods sold is $30,000,000 and the average inventory is $5,000,000, a. What is the inventory turns ratio? b. What would be the reduction in average inventory if, through better...

a. The Ajex Company has several of items they store in inventory. The table below shows the annual demand, and the item cost. Develop a logical classification for the inventory based on ABC: b. One...

A company stocks an SKU with a weekly demand of 600 units and a lead time of 4 weeks. Management will tolerate one stockout per year. If sigma for the lead time is 100 and the order quantity is 2500...

The safety stock on an SKU is set at 220 units. The supplier says it can reduce the lead time from 8 to 6 weeks. What should be the new safety stock?

A firm orders a number of items from a regional warehouse every 2 weeks. Delivery takes 1 week. Average demand is 200 units per week, and safety stock is held at 2 weeks supply. a. Calculate the...

If in problem 11.15, management said that it is considering increasing the service level to one stockout every 2 years, what would the new safety stock be? If the cost of carrying inventory on this...

A company does an ABC analysis of its inventory and calculates that out of 10,000 items, 19% can be classified as A items, 30% as B items, and the remainder as C items. A decision is made that A...

A company ships LTL to customers in a market in the Midwest at an average cost of $40 per cwt. It proposes establishing a distribution center in this market. TL shipment costs to the DC would be $20...

The Light Company is planning on producing a new type of light shade, the parts for which may be made or bought. If purchased, they will cost $2 per unit. Making the parts on a semiautomatic machine...

Historically, the cost of environmental damage arising from mining and processing minerals was not included in the price of consumer products. Do you think it should be? Why or why not?

In problem 15.1, if the annual carrying cost is 18% per unit, what will be the annual savings in carrying cost? In problem 15.1 A company carries 10 items in stock, each with an economic order...

What is the ATP (available to promise)? How is it calculated?

Complete the following table. Lead time for the part is 2 weeks. The lot size is 100. What is the projected available at the end of week 3? When is it planned to release an order? Week Gross...

Charles Darwin once said, It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. How does this statement relate to the definition of...

What causes the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico?

Since even rapidly growing, finely branched root systems rarely contact more than 1 or 2% of the soil particle surfaces, how is it that the roots can utilize much more than 1 or 2% of the water held...

How can the proper integration of livestock with crop farming enhance soil quality in (a) developed country intensive agriculture and (b) developing-country low-input agriculture?

What is a common T value, and what is meant by this term? Explain why certain soils have been assigned a higher T value than other soils.

In problem 1.1, how much would sales have to increase to provide the same increase in profits? In Problem If the cost of manufacturing (direct material and direct labor) is 60% of sales and profit is...

On the average, a firm has an 8-week lead time for work-in-process, and annual cost of goods sold is $12 million. Assuming that the company works 50 weeks a year: a. What is the dollar value of the...

A company wants to produce 480 units over the next three months at a uniform rate. The months have 19, 20, and 21 working days, respectively. On the average, how much should the company produce each...

In problem 2.3, how much will be produced in each of the three months? In problem 2.3 A company plans to produce 25,000 units in a 3-month period. The months have 22, 21, and 20 working days,...

In the example given earlier in the chapter, the MPS was unsatisfactory because there were poor inventory balances compared to the production plan. There was also a stockout for product C in periods...

Given the following data, can an order for 40 more units for delivery in week 5 be accepted? If not, what do you suggest can be done? There are zero units on hand. 5 2 3 6. 8. Week Customer Orders 70...

Given the following product tree, develop a material requirements plan for the components. Quantities per are shown in parentheses. The following worksheet shows the present active orders, the...

If the actual demand for April was 1440 units and the seasonal index was 2.5, what would be the deseasonalized April demand?

Refer to problem 10.3. The supplier offers a 2% discount on orders of 5000 units. Calculate the purchase cost, the cost of ordering, the cost of carrying, and the total cost if orders of 5000 are...

Given the following costs, which process should be used for an order of 400 pieces of a given part? What will be the unit cost for the process selected? Process A Process B Buy Setup Tooling...

What is wealth, and how is it created?

Using the scheduled receipts, calculate the ATP. There are zero units on hand. Week Customer Orders MPS ATP 1 10 50 2 3 10 4 5 60 50 6 16 7 8 9 10 50 10

Given the following data, calculate the projected available balance and the planned MPS receipts. The lot size is 100. The demand time fence is 2 weeks. Week Forecast Customer Orders Projected...

Complete the following problem. The lead time is one week and the demand time fence is the end of week 3. There are 20 on hand. The lot size is 60. Period Forecast Customer Orders Projected Available...

Analyze the following data to produce an ABC classification based on annual dollar usage. Part Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Annual Unit Usage 200 17,000 60,000 15,000 1500 120 25,000 700 25,000 7500...

Calculate the new lot size for the following if K = 5 Item 1 2 3 Annual Demand 2500 900 121 VAD New Lot Size

Given the following partial product tree, explode, offset, and determine the gross and net requirements for components H, I, J, and K. There are other components, but they are not connected to this...

Given the following data, calculate a level production plan, quarterly ending inventory, and average quarterly inventory. If inventory carrying costs are $3 per unit per quarter, what is the annual...

Explain why it might be difficult to make a decision about whether or not to allow farmers to spray pesticides even if we all agree about negative health effects of the pesticides.

Why is the concept of a food web generally preferred over that of a food chain?

What are ecosystem services? Describe some ecosystem services a forest provides.

What are some of the long-term effects of pesticides on human health?

What are ecosystem services?

What is meant by the statement, weathering combines the processes of destruction and synthesis? Give an example of these two processes in the weathering of a primary mineral.

Give an example of how parent material may vary across large geographic regions on one hand. but may also vary within a small parcel of land on the other.

Explain the relationships among a soil individual, a polypedon, a pedon. and a landscape.

A forester obtained a cylindrical core (L = 15 cm, r = 3.5 cm) of soil from a field site. She placed all the soil in a metal can with a tight-fitting lid. The empty metal can weighed 300 g and when...

Two different timber-harvest methods are being tested on adjacent forest plots with day loam surface soils. Initially. the bulk density of the surface soil in both plots was 1.1 Mg/m3. One year after...

Explain with two soil examples the concept of an ecosystem engineer.

What is functional redundancy, and how does it help soil ecosystems continue to function in the face of environmental shocks such as fire, clear-cutting, or tillage?

A soil with an abundance of CaCO 3 may have a pH no higher than about 8.3, while a nearby soil with high Na 2 CO 3 content has a pH of 10.5. What is the primary reason for this difference?

In the spring a certain surface soil showed the following soil test: soil solution K = 20 kg/ha. exchangeable K = 200 kg/ha. After two crops of alfalfa hay that conlained 250 kg/ha of potassium were...

Discuss the concept of the limiting factor and indicate its importance in enhancing or constraining plant growth.

Assume that you have two wall maps. each approximately 1 m wide by 0.70 m tall. One is a map of Canada. and the other is of a ranch in California. which map is the large-scale map and which is the...

What is soil quality. how is it measured and of what importance is it to all organisms that live in or on the soil?

If the cost of carrying inventory is $60 per unit per period and stockout cost $500 per unit, what will be the cost of the plan developed in problem 2.9a? What will be the cost of the plan developed...

The opening backlog is 800 units. Forecast demand is as shown here. Calculate the weekly production for level production if the backlog is to be reduced to 100 units. 3 5 2 4 6. Week Total Forecast...

Calculate the available to promise using the following data. There are 50 units on hand. Week 1 2 3 5 4 30 30 Customer Orders 20 50 30 50 MPS 100 100 ATP 2.

Given the following data, can an order for 20 for delivery in week 4 be accepted? Calculate the ATP using the following table. On hand = 50 units. Week 2 3 5 4 8. 40 30 Customer Orders 50 50 40 15 50...

The Acme Widget Company makes widgets in two models, and the bottleneck operation is in work center 10. Following is the resource bill (in hours per part). The master production schedule for the next...

Using the following product tree, construct the appropriate single-level trees. How many Cs are needed to make 50 Xs and 100 Ys? A(2) C(2) E(2) E(2) C(2)

Given the following parents and components, construct a product tree. Figures in parentheses show the quantities per item. How many Gs are needed to make one A? Parent Component A B C E B(2) E(2)...

Product A is an assemble-to-order product. It has a lot size of 150, and currently has an on-hand inventory of 110 units. There is a 2-week demand time fence and a 12-week planning time fence. The...

A work center consists of 3 machines each working a 16-hour day for 5 days a week. What is the weekly available time?

The work center in problem 5.1 is utilized 75% of the time. What are the hours per week actually worked? In problem 5.1 A work center consists of 3 machines each working a 16-hour day for 5 days a...

A work center consists of 4 machines working 8 hours a day for a 5-day week. If the utilization is 80% and the efficiency is 90%, what is the rated capacity of the work center?

Complete the following MRP record. The lead time is 4 weeks, and the lot size is 200. What will happen if the gross requirements in week 3 are increased to 150 units? As a planner, what actions can...

It is Monday morning, and you have just arrived at work. Complete the following MRP record as it would appear Monday morning. Lead time is 2 weeks, and the lot size is 100. During the week, the...

Shop order 7777 is for 600 of part 8900. From the routing file, it is found that operation 20 is done on work center 300. The setup time is 3.5 hours, and run time is 0.233 hours per piece. What is...

An order for 100 of a product is processed on operation A. The setup time is 50 minutes, and the run time per piece is 9 minutes. Since this is a rush order, it is to be split into two lots of 50...

Calculate the critical ratios for the following orders and establish in what order they should be run. Todays date is 75. Lead Time Remaining (days) Actual Time Remaining (days) Order Due Date 89 CR...

For the following data, calculate the mean absolute deviation. Actual Demand Period Forecast Absolute Deviation 105 1 100 105 95 3 110 90 4. 115 130 100 5 120 6. 125 120 Total 675 650

A florist carries an average inventory of $12,000 in cut flowers. The flowers require special storage and are highly perishable. The florist estimates capital costs at 10%, storage costs at 25%, and...

Given the following data, calculate the average demand and the standard deviation. Period Actual Deviation Deviation Demand Squared 1700 2100 1900 4 2200 5 2000 6. 1800 7. 2100 2300 8. 2100 10 1800...

If sigma is 130 units, and the demand during the lead time is 250 units, calculate the safety stock and order point for: a. A 50% service level. b. An 85% service level. Use the table in Figure 11.5...

A regional warehouse orders items once a week from a central warehouse. The truck arrives 3 days after the order is placed. The warehouse operates 5 days a week. For a particular brand and size of...

a. Which of the following items are within tolerance? b. What is the percent accuracy by item? Within Part Shelf Inventory Record Tolerance Tolerance? Number Count Difference % Difference 75 +3% A 80...

A company ships a particular product to a market located 1500 miles from the plant at a cost of $4.50 per mile. Normally it ships 500 units at a time. What is the line haul cost per unit?

Bananas are on sale at the Cross Towne store for 79 per pound. They normally sell for 99 per pound at your corner store. If round-trip bus fare costs $3.60 to the Cross Towne store, is it worth...

A company carries 10 items in stock, each with an economic order quantity of $20,000. Through a program of component standardization, the 10 items are reduced to 5. The total annual demand is the...

Bill builds benches in a small shop and he plans to operate five 8-hour days per week. Each bench has two ends and a top. It takes 5 minutes to cut and sand each end and 2 minutes to make each top....

Discuss four specific environmental goals that you hope are achieved in your lifetime.

What is value added, and how is it achieved?

What are an order qualifier and an order winner?

What is the objective of marketing? What three ways will help it achieve this objective?

What are metrics? What are their uses?

Which manufacturing strategies are used in a fast-food business? How does this affect the lead time from the customers point of view?

Give an example of a postponement activity.

What is the difference between make-to-order and assemble-to-order? Give an example of each.

What is a material requirements plan?

From the bookstore example in question 21, describe how one of the supply chains would use a supply chain channel master. Data from question 21 Describe at least three supply chains that provide...

The Wicked Witch Whisk Company manufactures a line of broomsticks. The most popular is the 36-inch model, and the sales department has prepared a forecast for 6 weeks. The opening inventory is 30. As...

Calculate the available to promise using the following data. There are 90 units on hand. Week Customer Orders MPS ATP 1 70 2 70 100 3 20 4 40 100 5 10 6 100

Given the following data, calculate how many units are available to promise. There are 5 units on hand. Week Customer Orders MPS ATP 1 21 30 2 3 17 30 4 8 30 5 6 3

Using the scheduled receipts, calculate the ATP. There are 45 units on hand. Week Customer Orders MPS ATP 1 45 2 50 100 3 35 4 40 100 5 30 6 40 100 7 20 8 18 100

Given the following data, calculate the projected available balance and the planned MPS receipts. The lot size is 200. The demand time fence is 2 weeks. Week Forecast Customer Orders Projected...