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Chapter 1: Q160Q (page 38)
Question: Live Trap Corporation received the data below for its rodent cage production unit. Find the total productivity.
Answer
The productivity is 1 unit or 3.5 dollars per dollar input
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What are IKEA鈥檚 competitive priorities?
Question: An electronics company makes communications devices for military contracts. The company just completed two contracts. The navy contract was for 2,300 devices and took 25 workers two weeks (40 hours per week) to complete. The army contract was for 5,500 devices that 35 workers produced in three weeks. On which contract were the workers more productive?
Hoosier Manufacturing operates a production shop that is designed to have the lowest unit production cost at an output rate of 100 units per hour. In the month of July, the company operated the production line for a total of 175 hours and produced 16,900 units of output. What was its capacity utilization rate for the month?
Suppose that Always Rain Irrigation鈥檚 marketing department will undertake an intense ad campaign for the bronze sprinklers, which are more expensive but also more durable than the plastic ones. Forecast demand for the next four years is
Yearly Demand | ||||
1 (IN 000s) | 2 (IN 000s) | 3 (IN 000s) | 4 (IN 000s) | |
Plastic 90 | 32 | 44 | 55 | 56 |
Plastic 180 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
Plastic 360 | 50 | 55 | 64 | 67 |
Bronze 90 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 23 |
Bronze 180 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
Bronze 360 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 |
What are the capacity implications of the marketing campaign (assume no learning)?
Question: Match the following common risks with the appropriate mitigation strategy:
Country risks A. Detailed tracking, alternate suppliers
Regulatory risk B. Careful selection and monitoring of suppliers
Logistics failure C. Contingency planning, insurance
Natural disaster D. Good legal advice, compliance
Major quality failure E. Currency hedging, local sourcing
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