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A producer of felt-tip pens has received a forecast of demand of 34,000 pens for the coming month from its marketing department
National Scan, Inc., sells radio frequency inventory tags. Monthly sales for a seven-month period were as follows:
The school board is trying to evaluate a new math program introduced to second- graders in five elementary schools across the county this year.
Two independent methods of forecasting based on judgment and experience have been prepared each month for the past 10 months.
PizzaTime Restaurants is building a new pizza place and needs to determine how big to make the various parts of its facility.
After plotting demand for four periods, an emergency room manager has concluded that a trend-adjusted exponential smoothing model
A cosmetics manufacturer's marketing department has developed a linear trend equation that can be used to predict annual sales of its popular Hand & Foot Cream.
A dry cleaner uses exponential smoothing to forecast equipment usage at its main plant. August usage was forecasted to be 60 percent of capacity
The Budd Gear Co. specializes in heat-treating gears for automobile companies.
A loan processing operation that processes an average of 6 loans per day. The operation has a design capacity of 13 loans per day and an effective capacity
Prior to a show at the People's theatre patrons arrive at an average rate of 400 per hour. 75% of patrons purchase a ticket at the Box Office.
A produce distributor uses 770 packing crates a month, which it purchases at a cost of $10 each.
Master Lock in Milwaukee, WI manufactures padlocks that are sold across the United States. The most Master Lock could possibly make in one day
A printing company has a contract with a legal firm to copy their court documents. Daily demand is a constant at 10000 pages to be copied
A catering company prepared and served 340 meals at an anniversary celebration last week using seven workers. The week before, seven workers prepared and served
An electrical contractor's records during the last five weeks indicate the number of job requests:
A dry cleaner uses exponential smoothing to forecast equipment usage at its main plant.
A manager checked production records and found that a worker produced 170 units while working 50 hours.
A manager must make a decision on shipping. There are two shippers, A and B. Both offer a two-day rate:
The table below gives the activity duration and precedence relationships for a small project consisting of six activities.
They are only concerned with the last hour of the day from 4:00 to 5:00 P.M. It takes 5 minutes per customer to be processed by the tellers.
Several complications arose during the course of trying to meet the deadline of April 21 for the Adams-Jackson wedding rehearsal.
A manager wants to determine the number of containers to use for incoming parts for a kanban system to be installed next month
Determine the number of cycles per day and a production quantity per cycle for this set of products that achieves fairly level production: