Zebra Technologies Corporation (ZTC) manufactures a number of navigation packages for pleasure boats. Their plant in Alabama wants to try a fixed production schedule for the next 6 months. When regular-time production and inventory cannot meet demand, they plan on first using overtime, and if that is insufficient, they will subcontract out in order to meet demand. The forecast for the next 6 months and key production data are provided below. Feb Mar May Jan Jun Demand 700 600 400 650 850 1.000 Production Rate Production Cost Backorder Cost Overtime Cost Overtime Limit Employees Subcontracting Cost Subcontracting Limit Average Inventory Cost Initial Inventory 65 units/month/employee 10 $200/unit $100/units $175/unit $150/unit 100 units 200 units maximum $20/unit/month 100 units What would be the total cost of this plan? Question 2 If management at ZTC is interested in a chase strategy using a hire/fire option, what is the total cost of this plan? They plan on using a policy where if the need were for 21.2 workers, they would hire 22 workers for that quarter. (Hint: this will impact regular time production and inventory.)

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A.3 Yellowburn University, a not-for-profit higher education organization, has the following mission statement: ‘We aim to deliver excellent tuition in state-of-the-art facilities to help develop socially responsible students and to contribute to global academic research.’ Which TWO of the following would be appropriate objectives to fit in with this mission? To deliver the best possible lessons. Each member of staff is to write two research papers for publication over the next two years. To increase car parking space at the university by 10% in the next 12 months to improve access. To get 15% of all students to receive first class honors degrees each year.  To ensure 100% attendance from all students for every lecture.

Course: Management Informatin Systems 1 This activity demonstrates how to create graphics to enhance the presentation of quantitative data Scenario The sales manager for a small manufacturer is interested in marketing the company's rain coat line in a new area of the country. As a first step to establishing a marketing plan she has asked you to produce some graphs showing the market share of the products sold over the past several years in the region. Analysis After some research, you acquire the approximate sales for each of the competing products presently in the region under consideration (See the data given below). The question now is to show how best to organize the data to take advantage of a graphical analysis. Pie charts give a quick overview of the market share "slices” each competitor presently enjoys. So you decide to use a pie chart to graph the most recent year's sales data for the region. This will give a good indication of just who the market leaders are and how crowded…

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5 Joe's Supermarket is an international market that features food items from around the world. How would Joe leverage physical evidence and partnerships to increase customer loyalty? Joe could offer an overall clean environment with branded displays of the least-purchased products in the store. Joe could focus exclusively on creating an attractive, stimulated environment in his store. Joe could offer a highly stimulated environment with branded displays of the products on the highest discount in the store. Joe could offer an overall clean environment with branded displays of the most-purchased products in the store.