Based on your analysis in the previous section, as an Operations Manager write a brief report with your recommendations for the business owner. For full marks you must include the following:

1. Outline the current situation of the organization based on the numbers you calculated.

• What is your analysis showing?
• What are your numbers showing?
• Is there enough capacity to meet demand for each product line? [10 marks]

2. Provide a solid recommendation to the business owner on how to address the problem(s) in the current situation.

• What do you recommend that the business owner do as next steps?
• Ensure that your answer is clear, consice, evidenced based and includes the numbers from the analysis to support your recommendation. [10 marks]

AlwaysRain Irrigation, Inc. would like to determine capacity requirements for the next four years. Currently, two production lines are in place for making bronze and plastic sprinklers. Three types of sprinklers are available in both bronze and plastic: 90-degree nozzle sprinklers, 180-degree nozzle sprinklers, and 360-degree nozzle sprinklers. Management has forecast demand for the next four years as follows: 4 (IN 800s) Plastic 90 Plastic 180 Plastic 360 Bronze 90 Bronze 180 Bronze 360 1 (IN 2005) 31 13 49 8 4 10 YEARLY DEMAND 2 (IN 2005) 3 (IN 0005) 45 56 14 15 56 65 7 6 4 8 12 15 54 19 68 17 13 20 Both production lines can produce all the different types of nozzles. The bronze machines needed for the bronze sprinklers require three operators and can produce up to 18,000 sprinklers. The plastic injection molding machine needed for the plastic sprinklers requires five operators and can produce up to 295,000 sprinklers. Three bronze machines and only one injection molding machine are available. What are the capacity requirements for the next four years? (Assume that there is no learning.) (Enter the demand values in thousands. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 93,000 31.53% 0.32 1.58 115,000 38.98% 0.39 1.95 136,000 46.10% 0.46 2.31 141,000 47.80% 0.48 2.39 Plastic Demand for plastic sprinklers Percentage of capacity used Machine requirements Labor requirements Bronze Demand for bronze sprinklers Percentage of capacity used Machine requirements Labor requirements 22,000 40.74% 23,000 42.59% 1.28 3.84 29,000 53.70% 1.61 4.83 50,000 92.59% 2.78 8.34 1.22 3.66