Bloomsday Outfitters produces t-Shirts for road races. They need to acquire some new stampings machines to produce 30,000 good T-Shirts per month.Their plant operates 200 hours per month,but the new machines will be used for T-shirts only 60% of the time and the output usually includes 5% that are “seconds” and unusable.The stamping operation takes 1 minute per T-shirt, and the stamping machines are expected to have 90% efficiency considering adjustments,changeover of patterns,and unavoidable downtime.How many stamping machines are required?
Case 2
In the table given the Distribution Manager is expected to service DCs as per the demands placed . If the actual sales after completing week one is as follows, what would be the quantaties that would need amendment as far as Distribution manager is concerned to service for week two and onwards?
After week one the actual sales to Forecasted sales for week one ratio is as under. Mumbai did 80% of forecast,Lucknow did 75% of forecast, Kolkata did 60% of week one forecast, Chennai did 125% of Forecast and Delhi did 150% of week one forecast. | Mumbai | Chennai | Lucknow | Delhi | Kolkata | | | | | | | | | | | Op Bal | 120 | 350 | 270 | 250 | 350 | | | Safety Stocks | 60 | 125 | 150 | 100 | 200 | | | Min order Qty | 80 | 200 | 200 | 100 | 300 | | | Lead time Wks | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | | | Transit | | | | | 300 | | | Sales Forecast | | | | | | | | Week 1 | 50 | 100 | 150 | 50 | 100 | | | Week 2 | 35 | 75 | 100 | 75 | 150 | | | Week 3 | 55 | 125 | 150 | 80 | 200 | | | Week 4 | 65 | 100 | 200 | 55 | 135 | | | Week 5 | 80 | 200 | 300 | 75 | 125 | | | Week 6 | 125 | 150 | 200 | 80 | 165 | | | Week 7 | 50 | 100 | 100 | 90 | 200 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Note: Kolkata will recieve transit stocks in week 2. | |
Case 3
After working for 30 years , Ramjee Somjee Dutt opted for VRS and