Tutorial Exercise

Kelson Sporting Equipment, Inc., makes two different types of baseball gloves: a regular model and a catcher's model. The firm has 920 hours of production time available in its cutting and sewing department, 200 hours available in its finishing department, and 100 hours available in its packaging and shipping department. The production time requirements and the profit contribution per glove are given in the following table.

Model	Production Time (hours)
	Cutting and Sewing	Finishing	Packaging and Shipping	Profit/Glove
Regular model	1	1 2	1 8	$6
Catcher's model	3 2	1 3	1 4	$7

Assuming that the company is interested in maximizing the total profit contribution, answer the following.

(b)

Develop a spreadsheet model and find the optimal solution using Excel Solver. How many of each model should Kelson manufacture?

Use Solver to complete the following spreadsheet values.

	A	B	C	D
11	Model
12		Regular	Catcher's
13	Number of Gloves Produced	?	?
14
15			Hours
16		Time Used	Time Available	Unused Time
17	Cutting & Sewing	?	920	?
18	Finishing	?	200	?
19	Packaging & Shipping	?	100	?
20
21	Profit	$ ?

(c)

What is the total profit contribution (in dollars) Kelson can earn with the optimal production quantities?

(d)

How many hours of production time will be scheduled in each department?

(e)

What is the slack time (in hours) in each department?

PLEASE HELP ME FILL IN B AND IF DOABLE C,D, AND E