The following table shows the costs associated with distributing the items to the respective plants. Use assignment method to achieve the minimum cost. A Item ABC DE B C CDEFL ∞23-63 BTS +∞~~ D 8 5 Plant 1 2 4 6 7 4 3 6 5 2 4 7 3 2 4 9 1 8 E5000 60 2 9 8 8 F427575

The following table shows the costs associated with distributing the items to the respective plants. Use assignment method to achieve the minimum cost. A Item ABC DE B C CDEFL ∞23-63 BTS +∞~~ D 8 5 Plant 1 2 4 6 7 4 3 6 5 2 4 7 3 2 4 9 1 8 E5000 60 2 9 8 8 F427575

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

6th Edition

ISBN:9781285869681

Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

Publisher:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

ChapterC: Cases

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 5.1SC: Scenario 3 Ben Gibson, the purchasing manager at Coastal Products, was reviewing purchasing...

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

Scenario 3 Ben Gibson, the purchasing manager at Coastal Products, was reviewing purchasing expenditures for packaging materials with Jeff Joyner. Ben was particularly disturbed about the amount spent on corrugated boxes purchased from Southeastern Corrugated. Ben said, I dont like the salesman from that company. He comes around here acting like he owns the place. He loves to tell us about his fancy car, house, and vacations. It seems to me he must be making too much money off of us! Jeff responded that he heard Southeastern Corrugated was going to ask for a price increase to cover the rising costs of raw material paper stock. Jeff further stated that Southeastern would probably ask for more than what was justified simply from rising paper stock costs. After the meeting, Ben decided he had heard enough. After all, he prided himself on being a results-oriented manager. There was no way he was going to allow that salesman to keep taking advantage of Coastal Products. Ben called Jeff and told him it was time to rebid the corrugated contract before Southeastern came in with a price increase request. Who did Jeff know that might be interested in the business? Jeff replied he had several companies in mind to include in the bidding process. These companies would surely come in at a lower price, partly because they used lower-grade boxes that would probably work well enough in Coastal Products process. Jeff also explained that these suppliers were not serious contenders for the business. Their purpose was to create competition with the bids. Ben told Jeff to make sure that Southeastern was well aware that these new suppliers were bidding on the contract. He also said to make sure the suppliers knew that price was going to be the determining factor in this quote, because he considered corrugated boxes to be a standard industry item. As the Marketing Manager for Southeastern Corrugated, what would you do upon receiving the request for quotation from Coastal Products?
Put this in other words. Analyze and elaborate this one. In the intricate orchestration of supply chain management, predictive analytics emerges as an indispensable conductor. Drawing upon colossal datasets from multifarious sources, predictive analytics unfurls a tapestry of precise supply and demand prognostications, meticulous inventory optimization, seamless logistics orchestration for punctual deliveries, anticipation of equipment maintenance exigencies, and the nimble adaptation to unforeseen contingencies. In this ever-evolving landscape, predictive analytics has metamorphosed into a critical lever for cultivating an agile and resilient supply chain, warding off disruptions, and laying the foundations for sustainable success.
Perform an ABC analysis on the following set of products Item Annual Demand Unit Cost A211 800 R9 B390 100 R90 C003 450 R6 D100 400 R100 E707 85 R2000 F660 250 R320 G473 500 R75 H921 100 R75
Can you explain the pattern of average sales of S1, S2 and S3?
On your way home from Super Groceries, your car breaks down. It is a hot summer day and you have nobody to call. With little time before the food spoils, you decide to prioritize what to carry on the walk home. You choose to take three items with you. Since you will need all five items today, you will replace the two abandoned items at the corner store near your house, Convenient Grocers. The table contains the prices you paid for each good at Super Groceries and the prices you will need to pay at Convenient Grocers to replace the goods. Item Price at Super Groceries Price at Convenient Grocers milk $3.50 $4.25 eggs $3.40 $2.75 ham $2.75 $5.15 fruits $3.80 $2.95 vegetables $1.75 $3.40 Which three items should you save? vegetables milk eggs fruits ham
Identify the causes of the seasonal demand pattern for Diamonds.Determine the inventory order quantity for each of the three (3) primary ingredients thatDiamant Foods orders from its suppliers.
One of the products of Edwards Lifesciences (EL) is artificial heart valves made from the heart valves of pigs.8 Different sizes of valves are required. However, the size of a pig's heart valve cannot be ascertained before the heart is purchased and opened. Therefore, EL has a mismatch problem: shortages of some sizes and excess of others. A program was established to document the size distribution of valves supplied by each supplier, and purchases were made from those suppliers with the needed sizes. Linear programming was used to determine the set of the suppliers that collectively satisfied EL's demand. Suppose EL purchases pig valves from three suppliers. The cost and size mix of the valves purchased from each supplier are given in the table below. Each month EL places one order with each supplier. Suppose next month, 250 large, 300 medium, and 100 small valves are needed. Formulate an LP that can be used to minimize the cost of acquiring the needed valves and use Excel's Solver to…
3.3 BriteSmile brand of teeth whitening products is considering adding a modified ver- sion of the product-a gel product in addition to its regular paste product. Variable costs and prices to wholesalers are: Unit selling price Unit variable costs Current paste product $5.00 $1.50 New gel product $6.50 $3.25 BriteSmile expects to sell 2 million units of the new gel product in the first year after introduction, but it estimates that only 30% of those sales will come from buyers who do not already purchase the company's paste product (that is, new customers). BriteSmile estimates that it would sell 3 million units of the current paste product if it did not introduce the gel. If the fixed costs of launching the new gel product will be $300,000 during the first year, should BriteSmile add the new gel product to its line? Why or why not?
The Batu Pahat Kayak Company has these awesome new kayaks they are going to introduce to the market. They are a new company and need help in determining pricing, costs and how many kayaks they will need to sell in a month to break even. They are looking to you to help them determine if the selling price and costs will help them to reach their goals. They give you the following information shown in Table Q4(b) to work with; COST (RM) 500 NO. ITEMS Price per kayak Variable cost per kayak Fixed cost per month 1 2 225 7,700 (i) Determine the breakeven point. Batu Pahat Kayak has a few investors who are interested in getting a return on their investment. They have talked with your supervisor, and between them all, would like to get RM 30,000 a month in profit to divide between them. Calculate how many kayaks need to be sold in order to get the investors their return. (11 (ii1) Determine how much in sales do we need.
Biscuit making in Britain and Germany. This is taken from a study of biscuit manufacture in ten (10) British and eight (8) German firms. The type of biscuits produced varied greatly between the two (2) countries, largely owing to national tastes and demand. In Britain demand concentrated on relatively basic biscuits: either plan or with simple coating of chocolate, cream or jam. In Germany, there was a much higher demand for decorated and multi-textured products (soft biscuits with jam filling in chocolate cases or layered variegated biscuits). Since this affected the type of biscuits each firm produced, it was difficult to measure and compare output and productivity between the British and German factories. An examination of crude output figures indicated that at the British factories employees were 25 percent more productive than German employees largely because British firms produced large quantities of simple low quality biscuits. However, when productivity figures were adjusted to…
From OSCM chpt 16, explain the concept of TCO- what is required and how is it useful to make purchasing decisions. Give an example of something you purchased recently.
Specialty Toys, Inc., sells a variety of new and innovative children's toys. As with other products, Specialty faces the decision of how may Weather Teddy units to order for coming holiday season. Members of the management team suggested order quantities of 15,000, 18,000, 24,000, 28,000 units. The wide range of order quantities suggested indicates considerable disagreement concerning the market potential. The product management team ask you for analysis of the stock-out probabilities for various order quantities, an estimate of the product potential, and to help make an order quantity recommendation. Specialty expects to sell Weather Teddy for $24 based on cost of $16 per unit. If inventory remains after the holiday season, Specialty will sell all surplus inventory for $5 per unit. After reviewing the sales history of similar products, Specialty%u2019s sales forecaster predicted and expected demand of 20,000 units with a .95 probability that demand would be between 10,000 units and…