Question: As operations manager, you are concerned about being able to meet sales requirements in the coming months. You have just been given the following production

As operations manager, you are concerned about

As operations manager, you are concerned about

As operations manager, you are concerned about

As operations manager, you are concerned about

As operations manager, you are concerned about being able to meet sales requirements in the coming months. You have just been given the following production report: Units produced Hours per machine Number of machines JAN 2,255 319 2 FEB 1,755 195 4 MAR 2,755 394 3 APR 2,955 315 4 Find the average of the monthly productivity figures (units per machine hour). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Average productivity units per machine hour Live Trap Corporation received the following data for its rodent cage production unit. OUTPUT 49,500 cages Sales price: $3.50 per unit INPUT Production time Wages Raw materials (total cost) Component parts (total cost) 632 labor hours $ 7.50 per hour $ 30,000 $ 15,350 Find the total productivity in Units Sold and Dollars of Sales per Dollar Input. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Units sold Sales (dollars) Total Productivity per dollar input per dollar input An electronics company makes communications devices for military contracts. The company just completed two contracts. The navy contract was for 2,200 devices and took 27 workers two weeks (40 hours per week) to complete. The army contract was for 5,454 devices that were produced by 35 workers in three weeks. a. Calculate the productivity for navy and army contracts in units produced per labor hour. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Productivity Contract Navy Army b. On which contract were the workers more productive? Army contract Navy contract A retail store had sales of $44,000 in April and $56,200 in May. The store employs eight full-time workers who work a 40-hour week. In April, the store also had six part-time workers at 10 hours per week, and in May the store had nine part-timers at 18 hours per week (assume four weeks in each month). Using sales dollars as the measure of output, what is the percentage change in productivity (dollars output per labor hour) from April to May? (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimal places.) Change in productivity

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