Question: Your boss needs your help in figuring out the constraints so that she can complete an aggregate plan using linear programming. She sells the product

Your boss needs your help in figuring out the constraints so that she can complete an aggregate plan using linear programming. She sells the product for $50 per unit. She wants to minimize costs. She is forecasting demand for next year as:

Jan

1500

Feb

1700

Mar

1900

Apr

2100

May

2300

Jun

2500

Jul

2700

Aug

3100

Sep

2600

Oct

2300

Nov

1900

Dec

1700

Her costs are:

Materials (per unit)

$ 28

Inventory holding (per unit per month)

$ 6

Marginal cost of stockout (per unit per month)

$ 5

Hiring & training (per worker)

$ 150

Layoff (per worker)

$ 300

Regular time (per hour)

$ 15

Overtime (per hour)

$ 22

Subcontracting (per unit)

$ 30

Your boss knows this information about labor:

Beginning workforce

65

Working days in a month

20

Worker productive time (hours per day)

7

Maximum overtime (hours)

15

Labor hours required (per unit)

4

Finally, here is what your boss wants for inventory management:

Beginning

1500

Ending

500

Stockout at the end of June

0

Here are things your boss wants you to figure out:

  1. Inventory for the period (It) is the beginning inventory minus the beginning stockout plus the production for the period (Pt) plus subcontracting for the period (Ct) which equals the demand for the period (Dt) plus the ending inventory (It) minus the ending stockout (St). How would you write the constraint for the demand for the period (Dt)?

Bonus question: What is the total revenue for the year?

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