This assignments summarizes and links concepts from chapters 1 and 2. Did you watch the King Soopers Bakery Video? Watching that video would be very useful for this assignment.

1. Read the case Chads Creative Concepts at the end of Chapter 1 (after the problems) and fill the following table

	Standard Furniture	Custom Furniture
Variety (high or low)
Customization (high or low)
Size of each order (not size of total $ revenue)
What competitive priorities might apply? (of the 9 in Table 1.3)

2. Knowing the above characteristics of each product, what would strategy and process design theory presented in chapters 1 and 2 indicate the choices for the two products be?

	Standard Furniture	Custom Furniture
Operations Strategy (MTO, ATO, MTS)
Process structure (Job, batch, assembly)
Worker flexibility (High or low)
Equipment flexibility (High or low)
Capital intensity - as ratio of equipment to people (High or low)

3. Based on how the equipment are laid out in the plant (not just how orders move), what is the manufacturing process (Job, assembly, or batch) is currently used?

4. Review the idea of strategic fit and gaining focus in chapter 2. (Be clear, answer all the questions below, and use concepts and terms from the chapters.)

1. Is one process suitable for both the product lines?

2. What can Chad do to ensure that they apply theory and apply appropriate process choices to each product line?