QUESTION at very bottom**** it is multi step

You and your roommate are preparing to launch Kristen's Cookie Company in your on-campus apartment. The company will provide fresh cookies to hungry students late at night. You need to evaluate the preliminary design for the company's production process in order to make key policy decisions, including what prices to charge, what equipment to order and how many orders to accept, and to determine whether the business can be profitable.

Business Concept

Your idea is to bake fresh cookies to order, using any combination of ingredients that the buyer

wants. The cookies will be ready for pickup at your apartment within an hour.

Several factors will set you apart from competing products such as store-bought cookies. First,

your cookies will be completely fresh.

You will not bake any cookies before receiving the order;

therefore, the buyer will be getting cookies that are literally hot out of the oven.

Second, like many Boston-based area ice-cream shops, you will have a variety of ingredients

available to add to the basic dough, including chocolate chips, M&M's, chopped Heath bars, coconut,

walnuts, and raisins. Buyers will telephone in their orders and specify which of these ingredients

they want in their cookies. You will guarantee completely fresh cookies. In short, you will have the

freshest, most exotic cookies anywhere, available right on campus

The Production Process

Baking cookies is simple: place all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix them; spoon the

cookie dough onto a tray; put the cookies into the oven; bake them; take the tray of cookies out of the

oven; let the cookies cool; and, finally, take the cookies off the tray and carefully pack them in a box.

You and your roommate already own all the necessary capital equipment: a high-capacity

professional-grade electric mixer, cookie trays, and spoons.

Your apartment has a small oven that will hold one tray at a time. Your landlord pays for all the electricity. The variable costs, therefore,

are merely the cost of the ingredients (estimated to be $0.60/dozen), the cost of the box in which the

cookies are packed ($0.10 per box; each box holds a dozen cookies), and your time (what value do

you place on your time?). A detailed examination of the production process, which specifies how long each of the steps will

take, follows. The first step is to take an order, which will be extremely fast and 100% accurate, since

your roommate has devised a method using the campus e-mail system to accept orders and to intorm

customers when their orders will be ready for pickup. Because this runs automatically on your

personal computer, it does not take any of your or your roommate's time. Therefore, this step will be

ignored in further analysis. You and vour roommate have timed the necessary physical operations.

The first physical production step is to wash out the electric mixer's bowl and beaters from the previous batch, add the

ingredients to the bowl, and turn on the mixer to mix the ingredients. The electric mixer can hold

and mix ingredients tor up to three dozen cookies. You then spoon the cookies, one dozen at a time,

onto a cookie tray. These activities take 6 minutes for the washing and mixing steps, regardless of

how many cookies are being made in the batch. That is, to mix enough dough and ingredients for

three dozen cookies takes the same 6 minutes as for one dozen cookies. However, spooning the cookies onto the tray takes 2 minutes per tray. The next step, performed by your roommate, is to put the cookies in the oven and set the thermostat and timer, which in total takes about 1 minute. The cookies bake for the next 9 minutes. So total baking time is 10 minutes, during the first minute of which your roommate is busy setting the oven. Because the oven only holds one tray, a second dozen takes an additional 10 minutes to bake.

Your roommate also performs the last steps of the process by first removing the cookies from the oven and putting them aside to cool for 5 minutes, then carefully packing them in a box and accepting payment. Removing the cookies from the oven takes a negligible amount of time, but it

must be done promptly. It takes 2 minutes to pack each dozen and about 1 minute to accept payment

for the order This is the process you plan to use to produce cookies by the dozen at Kristen's Cookie Company.

As experienced bakers know, a few simplifications were made in describing the actual cookie

production process. For example, the first batch of cookies for the night requires preheating the oven.

However, such complexities will be put aside for now. Begin your analysis by developing a process

flow diagram of the cookie-making process

Question:

Part A) Draw a flow chart of the cookie making process. Make sure to show "load and bake" as a single step

B) Make a Gantt chart for making one-dozen order

According to your above Gantt chart, the throughput time it takes to fill a rush order of 1-doz cookie is ______ minutes.

The cycle time of the process of filling 1-doz cookie order is ______ minutes.

How many orders can you fill in a 4-hour night? Show your calculation. Does your answer depend on the size of the order, 1-dozen, 2-dozen, or 3-dozen?

How many electric mixers and baking trays will you need? Why?

C.) Will the cycle time change if another oven is added?

Will the capacity double if another oven is added?

How much would you be willing to pay in general for renting a second oven? You don't need to give specific amount but in general what is the principle.