Question: Quality office designs created an aggregate production plan using a level strategy. The planning period is 12 months and the product is a certain fixture.

Quality office designs created an aggregate
Quality office designs created an aggregate production plan using a level strategy. The planning period is 12 months and the product is a certain fixture. The table on the following page presents the aggregate production plan. There is no inventory to begin with. The initial staffing level was at 11 employees before the given plan was created. The labor required to make one unit is 1.2 hours. For the production planning period, they found that they had a total of 253 workdays and needed to produce a total of 21,320 products. Thus they figured that they needed to make 21,320/253 = 84.26 or 85 units per day. As one units needs 1.2 hours, they needed a total of 85*1.2 = 102 labor hours each day. Given that one employee would work 8 hours per day, they figured that they thus need 102/8 = 12.75 or 13 employees at a level production schedule. Labor is paid $1500/month. Hiring costs are $475 per employee. Inventory costs are assessed on "Average Inventory" and are $12/unit/time period. The plan they came up with is given in the table below. Fill in the blanks labelled by the letter "A" through ")". Period 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Inputs Forecasted Demand 1400 1300 1600 1280 2000 2400 2550 1990 1750 1600 1600 1850 Work force level 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 Work Days 22 20 23 20 23 20 20 23 21 22 20 19 Production 1870 1700 1955 1700 1955 1700 1700 1955 1785 1870 1700 1615 Derived Utilized time A Beginning Inventory B Ending Inventory Average Inventory D E Hires F Layoffs Calculated Utilized time cost G H Inventory cost Hiring Cost 1

Step by Step Solution

There are 3 Steps involved in it

1 Expert Approved Answer
Step: 1 Unlock blur-text-image
Question Has Been Solved by an Expert!

Get step-by-step solutions from verified subject matter experts

Step: 2 Unlock
Step: 3 Unlock

Students Have Also Explored These Related General Management Questions!