Projected demand for a company's produced is shown. On average an employee can complete 5 units/day based on 40 hours/week & inventory at the beginning of period 1 equals 0. (each question below is independent of another).

Period	Production Days	Forecast
1	63	11000
2	64	15000
3	61	16000
4	52	14000

3A: If a chase plan is used with hiring and firing, how many operators will be required in period 1 if there is a requirement to have ending inventory each period equal to 10?

3B: If a chase plan is used with hiring and firing, how many operators will be hired at the beginning of period 2? (no negligible training time and no ending inventory requirement).

3C: If a chase plan is sued with a constant staffing level, what will the staffing level be and how long will the average work week be in period 3?

3D: If a level plan is used with inventory, how many units of inventory will there be at the end of period 2? (assume no other inventory restraints.

3E: If there are 2000 units of inventory at the beginning of period 1 and managment wishes to have 8 days supply of inventory at the end of period 4 (period 5 has 63 days and projected demand of 12,000 units), what will be the staffing level if a level plan is used?

3F: following from part e, how many days of supply will there be from period 1?