Question: Helio Polymer Enterprises Spreadsheet Modeling Assignment - As the operations manager, Margaret Wagoki has given you permission to improve tasks for, and add employees /

Helio Polymer Enterprises Spreadsheet Modeling Assignment
- As the operations manager, Margaret Wagoki has given you permission to improve tasks for, and add employees/resources to, the gunny bag production process.
- You are not authorized to add available work hours (i.e., overtime or extra shift) at this time.
- Fill in/modify the orange cells with hard numbers and the yellow cells with equations (no hard coding), and improve tasks (exploit) to the required stations to meet current demand (100,000 bags/week). Only make improvements where required (subordinate).
- Explain your decision(s) in the space highlighted below (tasks improved, # of resources added)
Projected demand =100,000 bags
Step # resources # tasks/bag*
Processing time/task
(in seconds)
Total processing
time/bag (in seconds)
Cycle time (in
seconds/bag)
Time available (in
hours/week)
Time available (in
seconds/week) Weekly Capacity
Cutting 12.5040
Stitching 410040
Printing 10.8023
*Input "# tasks/bag" from your solution on the "HPE Capacity (25K)" worksheet, then make further improvements as necessary
Explain your decisions below (must provide detail explaining why resources were added and how tasks were improved [relative to the previous spreadsheet]):

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