Production plan set$-$up

Item: rye bread

Manufacturing strategy: make$-$to$-$stock

Planning strategy: level production

Planning horizon: five weeks.

Opening inventory: $10$ loaves

Ending inventory: $5$ loaves

Cost of carrying inventory: $$\mathrm{.}25/$ loaf $/$ week

Expected demand: Week $1$: $9$ loaves; Week $2$: $10$ loaves; Week $3$: $11$ loaves; Week $4$: $10$ loaves; Week

$5$: $15$ loaves.

Answers:

Production plan shown graphically

Period $012345$ Total

Demand n$/$a $910111015$

Production n$/$a

Inventory $105$ n$/$a

Production answers given in writing:

$1.$ Each week, $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ loaves of bread should be produced?

$2.$ Loaves of bread in inventory: Week $1\_\_$; Week $2\_\_$; Week $3\_\_$; Week $4\_\_$; Week $5\_\_$;

$3.$ The total cost of carrying the inventory of the production plan is $ $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$