Chapter $5-$ Activity $1$

Determine the utilization and the efficiency for each of these situations:

A loan processing operation that processes an average of $7$ loans per day. The operation has a design capacity of $10$ loans per day and an effective capacity of $8$ loans per day.

A furnace repair team that services an average of four furnaces a day if the design capacity is six furnaces a day and the effective capacity is five furnaces a day.

Chapter $5-$ Activity $2$

A producer of pottery is considering the addition of a new plant to absorb the backlog of demand that now exists. The primary location being considered will have fixed costs of $$9,200$ per month and variable costs of $70$ cents per unit produced. Each item is sold to retailers at a price that averages $90$ cents.

$1.$ What volume per month is required in order to break even?

$2.$ What profit would be realized on a monthly volume of $61,000$ units? $87,000$ units?

Chapter $5$ Reflection Paper:

Choose an article from a professional business$/$management$/$supply chain journal; we have several available in the Library. For e$.$g$.$ International Journal of Supply & Operations Journal, Supply Chain Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and others, many on$-$line and accessible from home.

The topic should be focused on Capacity Planning and How the recent COVID$-19$ pandemic could have caused a disruption to manufacturing and supply chains globally in specific industries such as Technology, Life Science$/$Healthcare$,$ Automotive etc....

In a $2$ page paper $($a$)$ summarize the content of the article, $($b$)$ describe how it relates to chapter $5,$ and $($c$)$ the key takeaways and best practices that can be adopted in the future by global corporations.

Attached a copy of the article to this CP assignment.