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- Sales & Operations Planning - LP A local firm manufactures children's toys. The projected demand over the next four months for one particular model of toy robot is given in the following table. Month Workdays Demand January 23 3800 February 16 7200 March 20 2800 April 22 4400 Assume that a normal day is eight hours. Hiring costs are $350 per worker and firing costs are $850 per worker. Holding costs are $4 per unit held per month. Additionally, assume that it requires an average of two hours for one worker to assemble one toy. Shortages are not permitted. It is given that the ending inventory for December was 900 of these toys and the manager wishes to have at least 800 units on hand at the end of April. Assume that the current workforce level is 35 workers. The firm wants to minimize its cost. Answer the following questions. 1. Formulate the problem as a linear program. For simplicity, use the number from the questions instead of introducing parameter notations. Clearly define your…Exercises - Management Accounting Concepts and Techniques for Decision Making 16. The Call Company has an available 120 pieces of material M1 and 80 meters of material M2 to produce its products A and B: Product A Product B Unit Contribution Margin Required Materials: Material M1 P 3 P 4 2 pieces 4 meters 5 pieces 2 meters Material M2 REQUIRED: a. Objective function - involving maximization of the company's contribution margin. b. Non-negativity constraint for the decision variables с. Constraint function for Material M1 d. Constraint function for Material M2 e. Optimal product mixBriefly describe the planning techniques listed as follows, and give an advantage and disadvantagefor each:a. Spreadsheetb. Linear programmingc. Simulation
- Budgeting for a Merchandising Firm Goldberg Company is a retail sporting goods store thatuses an accrual accounting system. Facts regarding its operations follow:∙ Sales are budgeted at $250,000 for December and $225,000 for January, terms 1/eom, n/60.∙ Collections are expected to be 50% in the month of sale and 48% in the month following the sale.Two percent of sales are expected to be uncollectible and recorded in an allowance account at theend of the month of sale. Bad debts expense is included as part of operating expenses.∙ Gross margin is 30% of gross sales.∙ All accounts receivable are from credit sales. Bad debts are written off against the allowanceaccount at the end of the month following the month of sale.∙ Goldberg desires to have 80% of the merchandise for the following month’s sales on hand at the endof each month. Payment for merchandise is made in the month following the month of purchase.∙ Other monthly operating expenses to be paid in cash total $25,000.∙ Annual…Budgeting for a Merchandising Firm Goldberg Company is a retail sporting goods store thatuses an accrual accounting system. Facts regarding its operations follow:∙ Sales are budgeted at $250,000 for December and $225,000 for January, terms 1/eom, n/60.∙ Collections are expected to be 50% in the month of sale and 48% in the month following the sale.Two percent of sales are expected to be uncollectible and recorded in an allowance account at theend of the month of sale. Bad debts expense is included as part of operating expenses.∙ Gross margin is 30% of gross sales.∙ All accounts receivable are from credit sales. Bad debts are written off against the allowanceaccount at the end of the month following the month of sale.∙ Goldberg desires to have 80% of the merchandise for the following month’s sales on hand at the endof each month. Payment for merchandise is made in the month following the month of purchase.∙ Other monthly operating expenses to be paid in cash total $25,000.∙ Annual…Budgeting for a Merchandising Firm Goldberg Company is a retail sporting goods store thatuses an accrual accounting system. Facts regarding its operations follow:∙ Sales are budgeted at $250,000 for December and $225,000 for January, terms 1/eom, n/60.∙ Collections are expected to be 50% in the month of sale and 48% in the month following the sale.Two percent of sales are expected to be uncollectible and recorded in an allowance account at theend of the month of sale. Bad debts expense is included as part of operating expenses.∙ Gross margin is 30% of gross sales.∙ All accounts receivable are from credit sales. Bad debts are written off against the allowanceaccount at the end of the month following the month of sale.∙ Goldberg desires to have 80% of the merchandise for the following month’s sales on hand at the endof each month. Payment for merchandise is made in the month following the month of purchase.∙ Other monthly operating expenses to be paid in cash total $25,000.∙ Annual…
- Case Synopsis: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., a $23 billion company in 2021, has been the number one tractormanufacturer in India for the last 30 years. The agriculture tractor sale market in India is seasonal in nature andgrowing. To meet demand, the company has four manufacturing plants and 26 sales offices across the country; theirmain job is to coordinate supplies between its 800 dealers and the company. The sales offices provide a rollingdemand forecast of tractors for the current month plus two months in the future. The forecast is used to determine thenumber and models of tractors to manufacture and to support advance ordering of key modules and parts. The deputygeneral manager of sales in the company’s Farm Division has been receiving an increasing number of complaints fromirate dealers about the supply of tractors from the company’s stockyards. He needs your help to fix the situation. 1A. Discuss two additional demand management strategies or tools that MMFE could use to better…Please formulate this problem as an LP. (Just formulation).9. The VP of manufacturing for the N. L. Hyer Company is ready to decide on her sales and oper- ations plan for next year. The firm's single product (known throughout the adult puzzle trade as "Hyer's Hexagon") is "red hot," according to the VP of marketing, so she insists that backorders are not acceptable next year. Since the United Puzzlemakers Union is trying to organize the plant, the manufacturing VP decided the number of employees must remain constant (i.e., level) throughout all four quarters. Pertinent information is as follows: Quarter 1 I™ 2 3 Production Days 60 58 61 70 Demand Forecast 12,000 13,000 13,590 9,000 4 Beginning inventory = 1,000 units Regular time output rate = 10 units/day employee a. What daily production rate and number of employees will be required? b. How many units will be in inventory at the end of quarter 4?
- PROBLEM-2 XYZ Company manufactures a number of products. One important product is Q. which consists of two internally manufactured items Rand S as in the figure below: R (1 Piece) ITEM Q R S Item Q is assembled in an assembly station, A 10; Item R is in work center WC 30, and item S is manufactured in work center WC 70. Operation data for product Q and items R and S are shown in the table: ITEM Q Week Gross Requirements Lot size Lot for lot 50 150 1 40 Q Work Center 2 80 A 10 WC 30 WC 70 3 40 S (3 Pieces) 4 30 Setup time (Hrs) 0 3.0 2.0 5 40 6 30 Runtime per piece Lead Time (weeks) (Hrs) 1.7 1.0 1.0 1 1 1 1 Determine "capacity requirements planning" stated for product Q in the work centers A 10, WC 30, and W 70 for the next weeks on the basis of material requirements planning carried out.Consider the following financial data from the past year for Midwest Outdoor Equipment Corporation. (Answers in Appendix D) LO1–4 Gross income $25,240,000Total sales 24,324,000Total credit sales 18,785,000Net income 2,975,000Cost of goods sold 12,600,000Total assets 10,550,000Average inventory 2,875,000Average receivables 3,445,000a. Compute the receivable turnover ratio.b. Compute the inventory turnover ratio.c. Compute the asset turnover ratio. (Answer in Appendix D)Retailer Budget D. Tomlinson Retail seeks your assistance in developing cash and other budgetinformation for May, June, and July. The store expects to have the following balances at the end ofApril:Cash $ 5,500Accounts receivable 437,000Inventories 309,400Accounts payable 133,055The firm follows these guidelines in preparing its budgets:∙ Sales. All sales are on credit with terms of 3/10, n/30. Tomlinson bills customers on the last day ofeach month. The firm books receivables at gross amounts and collects 60% of the billings withinthe discount period, 25% by the end of the month, and 9% by the end of the second month. Thefirm’s experience suggests that 6% is likely to be uncollectible and is written off at the end of thethird month.∙ Purchases and expenses. All purchases and expenses are on open account. The firm pays its payables over a 2-month period with 54% paid in the month of purchase. Each month’s units of endinginventory should equal 130% of the next month’s cost of sales. The…