Charles Lackey operates a bakery in Idaho​ Falls, Idaho. Because of its excellent product and excellent​ location, demand has increased by 35​% in the last year. On far too many​ occasions, customers have not been able to purchase the bread of their choice. Because of the size of the​ store, no new ovens can be added. At a staff​ meeting, one employee suggested ways to load the ovens differently so that more loaves of bread can be baked at one time. This new process will require that the ovens be loaded by​ hand, requiring additional manpower. This is the only production change that will be made in order to meet the increased demand. The bakery currently makes 1,500 loaves per month. Employees are paid ​$88 per hour. In addition to the labor​cost, Charles also has a constant utility cost per month of ​$800 and a per loaf ingredient cost of ​$0.35 Current multifactor productivity for 640 work hours per month​ =   ​loaves/dollar ​(round your response to three decimal​ places).

WAI knows from historical records that approximately 40percent of its labor is used in Department 101 and 60 percentis used in Department 102. Th e reverse is true of machine time;60 percent is used in Department 101 and 40 percent is used inDepartment 102.(a) Calculate the labor and machine hours needed inDepartment 101 for each period of the MPS developed inProblem 4.(b) Calculate the labor and machine hours needed inDepartment 102 for each period of the MPS developed inProblem 4.

Krafts, Inc. uses the decentralized form of organization and considers each of its divisions as an investment center. Division A is currently selling 30,000 units of Part X annually, although it has sufficient production capacity to produce 42,000 parts per year. Variable manufacturing costs amount to P36 per part, while the total fixed costs amount to P180,000. These 30,000 parts are sold to outside market at P76 per part.             Division S, also a part of the Krafts, Inc. has indicated that they would like to get from Division A 3,000 parts at a price of P74. Per part because they presently buying the parts from the outside supplier at that price. Assume that Division A could sell the entire 42,000 parts to outside market. What is the effect on the overall operating income of Krafts, Inc. if Division A will be required by the top management to sell 3,000 parts to Division S at a price of: a.) P36      b.)P74

The production manager asked the foreman to achieve a target production of 200 units per day, but he doesn't give him the authority to requisition tools and materials from the stores department. Can the production manager blame the foreman if he is not able to achieve the desired target? Give reasons.