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Smart Manufacturing Company (SMC) manufactures a variety of products other than the drum components for printers. Their high selling mobile juicer cup JG-142 has the following expected demand sales figures (in units) over the coming six months: Answer the following questions independently: Develop aggregate production plans and calculate the relevant costs using the following strategies. Assume that hired workers will work from the first day of the hiring month and laid-off workers will stop working on the first day of the month. Show the resulting aggregate production plan and the corresponding relevant costs using the worksheet format available on eclass. (a) Plan A: SMC wants to develop a level production plan for this mobile juicer cup JG-142 in order to meet the demand and planned ending inventory. (b) Plan B: SMC wants to develop a chase production plan for this mobile juicer cup JG-142 in order to meet the demand and planned ending inventory. (c) Based on the total cost, which plan do you recommend A or B, why? Name: Student Number: \\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|} \\hline Periods & & & & Total \\\\ \\hline Expected Demand & & & \\\\ \\hline Beginning Inventory & & & & \\\\ \\hline Required Production Units & & & & \\\\ \\hline Required Productions Hours & & & & \\\\ \\hline Planned Regular Hours & & & & \\\\ \\hline Planned Overtime Hours & & & & \\\\ \\hline Actual Production Units & & & & \\\\ \\hline Units Subcontracted & & & & \\\\ \\hline Ending Inventory & & & & \\\\ \\hline Excess Inventory & & & & \\\\ \\hline Shortage & & & & \\\\ \\hline \\( \\begin{array}{l}\\text { Beginning Workforce } \\\\ \\text { (Previous Period's Workforce) }\\end{array} \\) & & & & \\\\ \\hline Workers Hired & & & & \\\\ \\hline Workers Laid-off & & & & \\\\ \\hline \\( \\begin{array}{l}\\text { Ending Workforce } \\\\ \\text { (Current Period's Workforce) }\\end{array} \\) & & & & \\\\ \\hline \\end{tabular} Cost Calculations: \\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \\hline Material Cost \\\\ \\hline Straight-time Cost \\\\ \\hline Overtime Labor cost \\\\ \\hline Carrying Cost \\\\ \\hline Backorder (Shortage) Cost & \\\\ \\hline Subcontracting Cost & \\\\ \\hline Hiring Cost \\\\ \\hline Layoff Cost & \\\\ \\hline \\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{ Total Cost: } & \\\\ \\hline \\end{tabular} Total Cost