This case puts you in the driver seat $($as a production planner$).$ Open the attached xIs workbook.. Your job is to prepare a production schedule $($considering the constraints and rules of this case in Chp $19),$ and to determine the operating budget for such a plan. Conceptually, you might try a Chase or Level type plan, but you need to abide by the constraints $-$ which are very specific. There are $3$ worksheets available to execute this plan $-$ the $1$st Aggregate Plan worksheet is where you determine your production plan$/$schedule $($by indicating the number of lines and any overtime hrs per day $-($yellow highlights$),$ and then determine the associated budget costs $($blue highlights$)$ of your plan. You can use the defaulted number of production lines and overtime hours as a first try; Once you've determined your budgeted plan, then there is the Simulation worksheet where you need to indicate the Actual Production Rate and the Actual Demand columns cells $($in reality the actual data would be getting filled in each week as time progresses$),$ but you need to fill all $52$ weeks with numbers into the blue cells $($simply enter $450$ into the Actual Production Rate column $($each cell$)$ and then copy the Forecast column into the Actual Demand column$)-$ which will end up simulating how much your plan will actually cost onto the $3$rd worksheet; This $3$rd worksheet is the Actual Cost worksheet, which will fill in automatically, based on data from the Simulation Worksheet. The main idea here is to do your plan $($sheet $1),$ estimate your budget $($sheet $1),$ enter in the production rate and demand $($sheet $2),$ which will automatically generate numbers showing the actual costs $($sheet $3).$ You should compare your budget $($sheet $1)$ to what it actually costs to execute $($sheet $3).$ Lastly, you should make an attempt to reconcile any differences between your budget and the actual costs that are simulated. Make adjustments to your plan$/$budget$,$ and rerun again, till you get the budget and actual costs to align.

Simulation Worksheet

$\backslash$table$[[$Qtr Wk$,\backslash$table$[[$Lines$],[$Scheduled$]],\backslash$table$[[$Overtime$],[$Scheduled$]],\backslash$table$[[$Beginning$],[$Inventory$]],\backslash$table$[[$Scheduled$],[$Productio$],[$n$]],\backslash$table$[[$Forecast$],[$Demand$]],\backslash$table$[[$Expected$],[$Ending$],[$Inventory$]],\backslash$table$[[$Expected$],[$Veeks$-$of$-],[$Supply$]],\backslash$table$[[$Actual$],[$Production$],[$Rate$],[[$casesthour$]],\backslash$table$[[$Actual$],[$Demand$]],\backslash$table$[[$Actual$],[$Productio$],[n$