Original Post Scenario:

You are a supervisor for a small manufacturing company. Your manager has assigned a new project to your department: the final assembly of children's sippy cups. There are three parts to the sippy cups: (1) the base cup, (2) a lid, and (3) a straw. There is also a box that will hold the finished product.

You have 2 full-time employees who can work for 7 hours per day, 5 days per week on this project, and apart-timeemployee who can work for up to 4hours per day, 5 days per week, on the project. The full-time employees make $1 more per hour more than the part-time employee.

You also have everything necessary to assemble the cups.including the cup parts, the boxes, and the material needed (e.g., the plastic that is used on the shrink-wrapping machine) to complete the assembly and ready the product for sale.

You have been given the following metrics for the sippy cupassembly project:

• • • Your goalits to assemble 2,000 marketable sippy cup units per week as efficiently and effectively as possible.
    • It takes 1 minute to put together the sippy cup.
    • It takes another 45 seconds to place the sippy cup in the box and shrink-wrap the product.
    • It takes another 15 seconds to perform a quality inspection. (In general, 99% of the assembled cups are expected tomeet or exceed quality expectations and are therefore marketable, while 1% of the assembled cups are expected to be rejected as unmarketable.)

Original Post Assignment:

Write a plan setting SMART goals for each of your three employees that will accomplish your sippy cup goal aseffectively and efficiently as possible.Also,write a concise memo to your manager explaining your plan to achieve your goal. Then, post your plan and memo as your original post to this discussion activity.