MRP for Making Pancakes – you can do this in your teams

Recipe

Dry Ingredients

· 200g flour

· 20g sugar

· 5g baking powder

Wet Ingredients

· 100g milk

· 1 large egg

(don't worry about syrup & butter)

This recipe will make 5 x 70g ea. pancakes

You need to make 100 pancakes by 8:00 AM. It is the night beforeand you need to plan it out.

To make your pancakes you must mix the dry ingredients and thewet ingredients separately then mix them together. The mixingprocess takes five minutest to assemble and mix the wet ingredientsand 2 minutes to assemble the dry ingredients then one minute toblend them together but you can’t let the blended batch sit formore than 30 minutes. You already have a hot griddle (flat cookingsurface) that can hold 10 pancakes at a time while cooking. Eachbatch takes 5 minutes to cook.

Create a BOM and an Assembly Line Time Chart that ends up with100 pancakes ready to release at the same time.

Don’t forget that you need raw materials and mixing bowls andutensils. It will take an hour at the 24 hour grocery store topurchase your ingredients. Assume that flour and sugar come in 5kgbags, baking powder in 100g containers, Milk in 2l (kg) bottles andeggs by the dozen.

· Flour - $5.00/5 kgbag

· Sugar - $2.50/5 kgbag

· Baking Powder -$4.00/100g jar

· Milk - $4/2 l (kg)carton

· Eggs -$3.60/dozen

How many batches do you need? How do you represent that in yourtime chart?

Can you determine the cost per pancake?

When do you have to start the process – leave for the grocerystore?

What can you do to simplify the process?