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You work at Ford Motor Company and are responsible for determining weekly production capacity for the Juarez, Mexico assembly plant. There are 21 days left in the production month. Your sales manager just informed you that 4,725 vehicles need to be produced in the upcoming days to meet projected sales demand in the United States 21. Your production capacity constraints are as follows: Each assembly line shift runs for eight hours, and you can run a maximum of three shifts per day. Each shift can produce 75 cars when operating at full capacity You can run your assembly operations seven days a week, if necessary A fully staffed assembly line shift requires 100 production workers. How many assembly line shifts will you need to run over the next 21 days to reach your production goals? a. 63 Ь. 75 c. 70 d. 21 OOOO You are the head of resource planning at a major diversified products company based in London, England. 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Financial resources You work at Ford Motor Company and are responsible for determining weekly production capacity for the Juarez, Mexico assembly plant. There are 21 days left in the production month. Your sales managerjust informed you that 4,725 vehicles need to be produced in the upcoming 21 days to meet projected sales demand in the United States. Your production capacity constraints are as follows: Each assembly line shift runs for eight hours, and you can run a maximum of three shifts per day. Each shift can produce 75 cars when operating at full capacity. You can run your assembly operations seven days a week, if necessary A fully staffed assembly line shift requires 100 production workers. How many worker-hours (number of workers x number of shifts x 8 hours) will you need to staff over this time period? a. 37,800 b. 100,800 c. 16,800 d. 50.400 You work at Ford Motor Company and are responsible for determining weekly production capacity for the Juarez, Mexico assembly plant. 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If The following inventory-related information is relevant to your analysis: On average, Silicon Graphics maintains 100,000 units in its raw materials inventory daily The inventory holding cost is approximately So.10 per unit per day. The annual rent expense for the inventory warehouse is $75,000. If Silicon Graphics converts to a just-in-time inventory system, the holding cost will be eliminated and the warehouse will no longer be needed. Based on the information provided, how much could Silicon Graphics save on inventory carrying costs each year if it converts to a just-in-time inventory management system (assume a 365-day year)? a. $3,725,000 O b. $3.650,000 O c. $175.000 d. $4,000,000 e. $100,000 The analysts in your Operations Management department use a variety of tools to document process flows and other sequenced activities. PERT diagrams and Gantt charts are two of the more frequently used tools because they both present an effective visual representation of these process flows. You give your staff the freedom to use either tool in their analyses because you know they both produce similar information about a process. Which of the following statements regarding the similarities between PERT diagrams and Gantt charts is NOT true? a. They both define tasks or activities in a project or process. b. They both show the total cost and number of workers needed for a project. c. They both determine the time it takes to complete each task d. They both lay out the order in which tasks must be completed. e. They both determine resources needed to complete each task OO O You are a labor economist with a major consulting firm. One of your large manufacturing clients has asked for an analysis of employment levels in the U.S. since the recession. The client would like to investigate the notion that U.S. manufacturing employment levels have fully recovered from the last recession, which began in December 2007 and ended in March 2009 Using the economic statistics database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, you compiled the following key employment statistics from December 2007 to February 2018: Employment Category All Employees: Manufacturing All Employees: Service Providing 116,435 All Employees: Government Total Count @ December 2007 Total Count @ February 2018 Percentage Change 12,614 127,677 22,358 13,746 (8.2%) 9.6% 22,376 (0.8%) (Note: Amounts stated in 000's) Based on the data in the table above, indicate whether the following statement is true or false. Manufacturing sector employment has fully recovered from the last recession: a. T b. F You are a labor economist with a major consulting firm. One of your large manufacturing clients has asked for an analysis of employment levels in the U.S. since the recession. The client would like to investigate the notion that U.S. manufacturing employment levels have fully recovered from the last recession, which began in December 2007 and ended in March 2009. Using the economic statistics database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, you compiled the following key employment statistics from December 2007 to February 2018: Employment Category All Employees: Manufacturing All Employees: Service Providing 116,435 All Employees: Government Total Count@ December 2007 Total Count@ February 2018 Percentage Change (8.2 %) 9.6% (0.8% ) 13,746 12,614 127,677 22,376 22,358 (Note: Amounts stated in 000's) Based on the data in the table above, indicate whether the following statement is true or false. Service sector employment has fully recovered from the last recession: a. T b. F O O

Answer 1

Observed Data :

Desired Total Output = 4725 cars

Present shift per day = 3

1 full assembly line can produce = 75 cars

1 full assembly line = 100 workers

Total production days available = 21

1. Total number of assembly line shift required to run over the next 21 days can be calculated as follows:

Expected Daily production = 4725/21 = 225

Expected single shift production = 225/3 = 75

So 3 production = 75*3 = 225

Hence when the assembly workers work at full capacity for the next 21 days on the basis of 3 shift per day, they will be able to meet their overall production target.

Hence assembly line shift required to run over the next 21 days = 3*21 = 63

So, if 63 assembly line shifts are run for the next 21 days at full capacity, the demand of 4725 cars can be met.

Correct answer is option 1. 63

2. The correct answer is : e. All of these resources will be required.

For a oil pipeline Construction unit, we need to have human resources, financial resources, raw material resources and Information resources. None of these can be excluded.

3. The correct answer is option e: human resources.

A business financing division of the company will be more interested in having up to date information, raw materials resources and the financial resources to settle on the values and Human resources will have the last priority.

4. Number of worker hours needed to staff over the time period is calculated as follows:

Number of workers in one shift = 100

Number of shifts per day = 3

Number of shift for the entire production days = 21*3 = 63

Worker Hours = 8

Number of workers * number of shifts *8

= 100*63*8 = 50,400

The correct answer is option d : 50,400