Holly Farm In 2003‚ Charles and Gillian Giles decided to open up their farm to the paying public‚ in response to diminishing profits from their milk and cereal activities. They invested all their savings into building a 40 space car park and an area with spaces for 40 seater buses‚ a safe viewing area for the milking parlour‚ special trailers for passengers to be transported around the farm on guided tours‚ a permanent exhibition of equipment‚ a rare breads paddock‚ a children’s adventure playground
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sales of the De-Luxe model will be 18 units. The products use a special component‚ of which only 1‚200 are currently available per week. Each Standard unit uses 25 components and each De-Luxe unit needs 50. You are required to: (a) analyse the current position and recommend a weekly production plan‚ showing the contribution. Whilst keeping to the De-Luxe sales limit‚ the firm would like to maximise contribution and realises that this may mean paying more to increase the supply of some of the resources
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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 2 (Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems and Solutions 1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain. Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced
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Operations Management in Business Table of Contents Introduction..............................................................................................................................3 LO 1 LO1.1 Explain the importance of operational management.......................................................4 LO1.2 Explain the need to produce safely; on time; to cost; to quality and within the law......6 LO1.3 Explain the link between operations management and strategic planning...........
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Overview: The ISFJ personality type is perhaps the most altruistic and supportive of all types. Forming around 12.5% of the population‚ ISFJs rarely sit idle – there is always a worthy cause awaiting their attention. Most personalities are quite willing to reciprocate when it comes to good deeds; however‚ ISFJs take that to a higher level‚ often going above and beyond what is actually expected of them. People belonging to this type thrive in areas that are both traditional (they are SJs‚ after all)
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Problem 1. Sampling 4 pieces of precision-cut wire (to be used in computer assembly) every hour for the past 24 hours has produced the following results: |Hour |Average (inches)|R (inches) |Hour |Average[pic] |R (inches) | | | | | |(inches) | | |1 |3.25 |0.71 |13 |3.11 |0.85 | |2 |3.10
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1. Briefly explain why many corporations prefer to issue callable long-term corporate bonds rather than non-callable long-term bonds. There are three main reasons why a corporation may be interested in calling a bond. * Interest rates have fallen‚ so they can refinance at a lower rate. * Credit quality has improved‚ so they can refinance at a lower rate. * Assets have been sold‚ so money is available to pay off debt. If a bond issuer pays investors the going rate of 7% annually in interest‚ and
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1: OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY TRUE/FALSE 1. Some of the operations-related activities of Hard Rock Café include designing meals and analyzing them for ingredient cost and labor requirements. True (Global company profile‚ easy) The production process at Hard Rock Café is limited to meal preparation and serving customers. False (Global company profile‚ easy) All organizations‚ including service firms such as banks and hospitals‚ have a production function. True (What is operations management? moderate)
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1. ------------------------------------------------- Consider a firm with a daily demand of 100 units‚ a production rate per day of 500 units‚ a setup cost of $200‚ and an annual holding cost per unit of $10. Suppose that the firm operates 300 days per year. How many units of inventory must their storage area be able to hold? ------------------------------------------------- Answer | | close to 975 | | | close to 980 | | | close to 1095 | | | close to 1224 | | | close to 1225 | 5 points
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Current Asset Management Profitability and liquidity are the two ultimate twin goals of any firm. But these two often give rise to conflicts since liquid assets give the lowest returns. If firms don’t care about profit‚ they can’t endure for a longer period. Likewise‚ if they don’t care about liquidity‚ they may face insolvency or worse‚ bankruptcy. Thus‚ there must be a trade off between the two objectives. For these reasons‚ working capital management which involves the relationship between current
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