A pizza store is staffed by two employees: a pizza chef and an assistant. The store...

 

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A pizza store is staffed by two employees: a pizza chef and an assistant. The store has an oven that can only bake one pizza at a time. The transformation process (sequence of steps) followed at the store is as follows: Tasks Minutes Who 1 Assistant 3 Chef 2 Chef 12 Oven 1 Assistant Assistant 1. Take the order 2. Make the crust 3. Prepare and add ingredients 4. Bake the pizza 5. Cut pizza and box the order 6. Take payment 1 Assume the chef gets paid $15 per hour, the assistant gets paid $11 per hour, and overhead cost is 50 percent added to direct labor cost. The cost of ingredients is $7 per pizza. Besides, each customer orders one pizza per order. 1. What is the maximum hourly output of the assistant, chef, and oven? What is the capacity of this process in terms of orders per hour? (20 marks) 2. Where is the bottleneck in this process? 3. What is the throughput time of the process in terms of minutes/order? 4. What is the throughput rate of the process in terms of orders per hour? 5. What does it cost to make a pizza if the average demand is 60 percent of capacity? 6. How can the unit cost of pizzas be reduced? (10 marks) (10 marks) (10 marks) (30 marks) (20 marks) A pizza store is staffed by two employees: a pizza chef and an assistant. The store has an oven that can only bake one pizza at a time. The transformation process (sequence of steps) followed at the store is as follows: Tasks Minutes Who 1 Assistant 3 Chef 2 Chef 12 Oven 1 Assistant Assistant 1. Take the order 2. Make the crust 3. Prepare and add ingredients 4. Bake the pizza 5. Cut pizza and box the order 6. Take payment 1 Assume the chef gets paid $15 per hour, the assistant gets paid $11 per hour, and overhead cost is 50 percent added to direct labor cost. The cost of ingredients is $7 per pizza. Besides, each customer orders one pizza per order. 1. What is the maximum hourly output of the assistant, chef, and oven? What is the capacity of this process in terms of orders per hour? (20 marks) 2. Where is the bottleneck in this process? 3. What is the throughput time of the process in terms of minutes/order? 4. What is the throughput rate of the process in terms of orders per hour? 5. What does it cost to make a pizza if the average demand is 60 percent of capacity? 6. How can the unit cost of pizzas be reduced? (10 marks) (10 marks) (10 marks) (30 marks) (20 marks)