The Gutuchi Company manufactures purses, shaving bags and backpacks. The construction includes leather and synthetics. Leather being the scarce raw material. The production process requires two types of skilled labor: sewing and finishing. The following table gives the availability of the resources, their usage by these products, and the profits per unit.  The production manager at Gutuchi wishes to determine the production levels so that the company’s total revenue is maximized.                 **                            Resource Required per Unit                          **                              Resource: Purse Bag Backpack Daily Availability Leather (Sq. ft.) 2 1 3 42 Sewing (Hr.) 2 1 2 40 Finishing (Hr.) 1 0.5 1 45 Selling Price ($) 24 22 45

As the production planner for Xiangling Hu​ Products, Inc., you have been given a bill of material for a bracket that is made up of a​ base, 2 springs​, and 4 clamps. The base is assembled from 2 clamps and 1 housing. Each clamp has 1handle and 1 casting. Each housing has 2 bearings and 2 shafts. There is no inventory on hand.     c) Compute the net quantities needed if there are 25 of the base and 100 of the clamp in stock. ​Base:  units (enter your response as a whole number​). ​Spring: units ​Clamp: units ​Housing: units Handle units ​Casting: units ​Bearing: units ​Shaft: units

14

A Shoe retailer wants to add a new brand in his shoe outlet. When this new product will added an additional weekly payment of $5500 will be required. Variable cost is $5/product and selling price is $11/product. Find the operating profit generated if 2100 units are sold in a week? A)$12,600 B)$4,800 C) $6,800 D) $7,100

Use the following information for the next 3 problems: ABC Company plans to construct a 60,000 sq. ft private warehouse and rent public warehouse as needed. Warehouse inventory turns at the rate of 2 times per month. One pound of merchandise occupies 0.2 cubic feet of warehouse space and can be stacked 10 feet high. Given aisles, and normal operating efficiency, only 50 percent of the total warehouse space is actually used for storage. Assume the facility is being built to size so no additional space is allowed for future product growth.       A private warehouse can be constructed for $36 per sq. ft. and can be amortized over 20 years. Annual fixed costs amount to $20 per sq. ft. of total space. The cost of operation is $0.03 per pound of throughput. Space may also be rented for a storage charge on inventory of $0.06 per pound per month and a handling charge of $0.05 per pound of throughput. Monthly demands for a typical year are as follows: Month Demand (lb) Jan 2,000,000…

The total planned expenditures is called as aggregate demand Select one: True False

Deforrest Marine Motors manufactures engines for the speedboat racing circuit. As part of their annual planning cycle, they forecasted demand for the next four quarters. The number of available days of production and the anticipated demand are given below. Employees Production Rate Production Cost Backorder Cost Overtime Cost Overtime Limit Demand Q1 2,400 6,019,000 They also estimated many of the costs required to conduct operations planning. Some of these key figures are listed below. 30 70 units/employee/quarter Q2 2,200 $1,000/unit $200/unit/quarter $1,500/unit <= 25% of Reg. Production Q3 1,700 Q4 1,800 Hire Cost Fire Cost Subcontracting Cost Subcontracting Limit Inventory Cost Initial Inventory $1,200/employee $800/employee $1,800/unit 400 units maximum $100/unit/quarter 280 units Deforrest Marine Motors wishes to maintain the current number of employees for the entire year to follow a level strategy balanced with inventory and backorders as needed. What is the total cost of this…

A small textile company makes several types of sweat-ers. Demand is very seasonal, as shown by the follow-ing quarterly demand estimates. Demand is estimated interms of standard hours of production required.An hour of regular time costs the company $12. Employees are paid $18 per hour on overtime, andlabor can be subcontracted from the outside at $14per hour. A maximum of 1000 overtime hours isavailable in any month. A change in the regular level of production (increase or decrease) incurs a one-time cost of $5 per hour for adding or subtracting anhour of labor. It costs 2 percent per month to carry an hour of finished work in inventory. Materials and overhead costs in inventory are equal to the directlabor costs. At the beginning of the fall quarter,there are 5000 standard hours in inventory and theworkforce level is equivalent to 10,000 standardhours.a. Suppose management sets the level of regular work-ers for the year equal to the average demand andsubcontracts out the rest. What is…