Question: Please solve this in Excel and click on the cells which has formulas and also please upload screen shorts of all excel sheets ( a

Please solve this in Excel and click on the cells which has formulas and also please upload screen shorts of all excel sheets(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h)
Bill Kemp is an industrial engineer in charge of production planning at Keystone
Products. The company assembles three products from components purchased from outside
suppliers. Production might be limited by market demand, the assembly capacity at several
departments, and the availability of certain critical components.
Market demand during the planning period is limited to 400 units/week of product A,
500 units/week of product B, and 300 units/week of product C. The company has firm contracts
with vendors to supply at least 100 units/week of product A,150 units/week of product B, and
100 units/week of product C. The company must produce enough units to meet pre-existing
contract, but should not produce more than the units demanded for any product. Profit
contribution has been determined to be $150/unit on product A, $100/unit on product B, and
$200/unit on product C.
Product A requires 5 minutes of assembly time in Shop 1,4 minutes of assembly time in
Shop 2, and 2 minutes of assembly time in Shop 3. Product B requires 4 minutes in Shop 1,2
minutes in Shop 2, and 6 minutes in Shop 4. Product C requires 3 minutes in Shop 1,4 minutes
in Shop 3, and 10 minutes in Shop 5. The shops work 5 days per week. Shop 1 is able to operate
12 hours per day, Shop 2 is limited to 14 hours per day, Shop 3 is limited to 8 hours per day,
Shop 4 is limited to 12 hours per day, and Shop 5 is limited to 10 hours per day.
Product A uses a special microchip that is limited to 500 chips/week. We will call this
Microchip X. Product B also uses Microchip X. Product B also uses Microchip Y, which is limited
to 400 chips/week. Product C uses a third chip, Microchip Z, which is limited to 600 chips/week.
a.) How many units of each product should be scheduled for production each week, and
what would be the weekly profit?
b.) What constraints are binding? That is, which constraints are at their limit?
c.) Should Kemp consider increasing capacity at any of the shops, and if so, which ones?
d.) Should Kemp consider looking for additional sources of any of the three microchips?
If so, which ones?
e.) Should Keystones marketing director be urged to promote any of the products more
aggressively, to raise market demand? If so, which ones?
f.) How would your responses to parts a.) and b.) change if the supply of Microchip X
was increased by 50%?
g.) How would the responses to parts a.) and b.) change if, in addition to the increase in
availability of Microchip X, the market demand for products A and C both increased
by 50%?
h.) How would the responses to parts a.) and b.) change if, in addition to the increase in
availability of Microchip X and the increase in market demand for products A and C,
the capacity of Shop 1 was increased by 50%?

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