BUSN $3386$

Exam #$2-$ Winter $2024$ V$1$

Referring to the Masonite scenario in the previous question, the plant manager has been under pressure by the Sales VP to speed up the delivery of the interior doors to the building contractors. There the plant manager has directed the planner manager to overlap the router and trimmer stations. Therefore, the demand planning manager will split the original $250$ lot into two lots, with the first transfer batch of $160$ doors. In addition, you've eliminated the wait time between the CNC Router and Trimmer. $(6$ point$)$

Given these changes:

a$.$ Calculate the revised manufacturing lead time and determine how much time you reduced from the original plan.

b$.$ Calculate the theoretical transfer batch size and comment if the plant manager's directive of $160$ doors for the transfer batch size is reasonable.