PCR - wasn't too bad

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
    Re:PCR - wasn't too bad

    17x35x5 = 2975
    17x80 = 1360
    = 4355

    need
    prodution / 7
    production / 4
    = 4335
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Yeah I got 4655 required and only 4335 available, SPOT ON! You have to divide the numbers to get hours required but you need to multiply to get hours available
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
    Re:PCR - wasn't too bad
    Ashy wrote:
    There must have been a limiting factor, as the question following said "recommend how to reach the new production budget" if there was no limiting factors then no recommendations would have to be made, surely people got this??


    it said "make recommendations"

    didnt mention "how, why, where or when"

    it just said "make"

    i did, sack three people, save yourself 3 wages....! :D
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    5-times wrote:
    17x35x5 = 2975
    17x80 = 1360
    = 4355

    need
    prodution / 7
    production / 4
    = 4335

    you dont include basic hours coz you already used that in the other production

    you went into 605 hours overtime already, take it off the 1360 gives you, erm , dunno 600 and something available overtime hours.
    all you needed was 350. you have 600 and odd.


  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    But the 3 people off sick caused a limiting factor?!? recommend or make recommendations is the same question! I feel confident about this one, but probable have failed the rest, what did you get your production budget to be as tis was the pivotal question
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Didnt it say make recomendations to meet the order ? therefore limiting factor ?
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    there was no limiting factor. We had enough labour hours and enough material to cover the new order.

    What you have calculated is the total hours.

    They said that we had 17 employees who can work a total of 80 hours in ovetime each. This gives 1360 hours. We used 805 hours in normal production, so you had 555 hours left. 7 Sigmas could be produced in one hour and 4 Thetas could be produced in one hour. So 1400/7 = 200 hours for Sigma and 600/4 = 150 hours, so we need a total of 350 hours but we have 555 hours available. Therefore we have enough hours and labour is not our limiting factor.

    Materials supply was 25,000kg. Sigma took 9x1400=12,600kg and Theta took 12x600=7,200kg. So we need a total of 19,800kg net. We gross this up and it is 19800/98x100 = 20205kg required. So material was not our limiting factor either.

    We could therefore satisfy this order.

    Anyone else agree with my results?

    What did people write for 1.2.c - the two recommondations on meeting this production?
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    You need to recalculate for the 3 people off sick, the total hours available was 4335, less the amount used in "the original production as you said was 4305 (of which 805 was overtime) this left 30 hours available
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    WATERFALLS wrote:
    there was no limiting factor. We had enough labour hours and enough material to cover the new order.

    What you have calculated is the total hours.

    They said that we had 17 employees who can work a total of 80 hours in ovetime each. This gives 1360 hours. We used 805 hours in normal production, so you had 555 hours left. 7 Sigmas could be produced in one hour and 4 Thetas could be produced in one hour. So 1400/7 = 200 hours for Sigma and 600/4 = 150 hours, so we need a total of 350 hours but we have 555 hours available. Therefore we have enough hours and labour is not our limiting factor.

    Materials supply was 25,000kg. Sigma took 9x1400=12,600kg and Theta took 12x600=7,200kg. So we need a total of 19,800kg net. We gross this up and it is 19800/98x100 = 20205kg required. So material was not our limiting factor either.

    We could therefore satisfy this order.

    Anyone else agree with my results?

    What did people write for 1.2.c - the two recommondations on meeting this production?


    yes, thats what i did although a few calculation hours adrift, but basically the underlying info is the same.

  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    WATERFALLS wrote:
    there was no limiting factor. We had enough labour hours and enough material to cover the new order.

    What you have calculated is the total hours.

    They said that we had 17 employees who can work a total of 80 hours in ovetime each. This gives 1360 hours. We used 805 hours in normal production, so you had 555 hours left. 7 Sigmas could be produced in one hour and 4 Thetas could be produced in one hour. So 1400/7 = 200 hours for Sigma and 600/4 = 150 hours, so we need a total of 350 hours but we have 555 hours available. Therefore we have enough hours and labour is not our limiting factor.

    Materials supply was 25,000kg. Sigma took 9x1400=12,600kg and Theta took 12x600=7,200kg. So we need a total of 19,800kg net. We gross this up and it is 19800/98x100 = 20205kg required. So material was not our limiting factor either.

    We could therefore satisfy this order.

    Anyone else agree with my results?

    What did people write for 1.2.c - the two recommondations on meeting this production?

    sack 3 people....
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Ashy wrote:
    But the 3 people off sick caused a limiting factor?!? recommend or make recommendations is the same question! I feel confident about this one, but probable have failed the rest, what did you get your production budget to be as tis was the pivotal question

    i feel that it asked for a recomendation on how to meet the order therefore i put we needed to find cover for the sick staff.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Ashy you dont do it for the total hours, ONLY FOR THE OVERTIME HOURS, since the normal hours were used in normal production.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Yea but the original amount was based on 20 staff but we ost 3 through sickness this was (3 x 35 x 5) + (3 x 80) = loss of 765 hours
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    WATERFALLS wrote:
    Ashy you dont do it for the total hours, ONLY FOR THE OVERTIME HOURS, since the normal hours were used in normal production.

    never has a past paper asked you to go back and do all the calculations from scratch.

    ashy, i dont think it required such intricate work as the 3 people went off sick now not last week, well after the increase in sales was known.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    yeah i wrote that you need to have contingency plans for both labour and also being able to have access to enough materials.

    I also said hold less closing stock, even though they did say that they wanted to keep it the same. I wrote that by holding less closing stock you have enough production to meet the sales demand in that period.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    It said that the 3 people were off all period therefore we lost there labour hours for the orignal production too.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Yea but we lost 3 people who we needed to cover for, 5-TIMES, did you reccommend maybe hiring more staff or sub-contracting sometimes??
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
    Re:PCR - wasn't too bad

    Yea but we lost 3 people who we needed to cover for, 5-TIMES, did you reccommend maybe hiring more staff or sub-contracting sometimes??
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
    Re:PCR - wasn't too bad

    Yea but we lost 3 people who we needed to cover for, 5-TIMES, did you reccommend maybe hiring more staff or sub-contracting sometimes??
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    OOOOOHHHHH. YOU COULD BE RIGHT. DIDN'T THINK OF THAT!!! ANYONE ELSE GO WITH THIS RATIONALE?
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Ashy wrote:
    Yea but we lost 3 people who we needed to cover for, 5-TIMES, did you reccommend maybe hiring more staff or sub-contracting sometimes??

    Yes i said we needed to hire cover for staff.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    5-times wrote:
    It said that the 3 people were off all period therefore we lost there labour hours for the orignal production too.

    did it say "period"? are you sure?
    i remember it saying "3 people off sick". that was it. nothing about months, weeks, periods etc etc
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Exactly, the production budget was set befre period 7. hence it being a budget! And the question said that they have now found out 3 people will be off sick, period 7 hadnt even occurred yet, it was a budet with forecasted sales
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    it defo said off all period 7
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    im sticking with what i said it makes more sense!!

    :D
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    michelleAAT wrote:
    im sticking with what i said it makes more sense!!

    :D

    Fair enough i think your way sound better to be
    honest but it doesnt always go with the plan does it.If it was the same every time students could just remember past exams methods and not understand fully what is happening. anyway good luck
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    michelleAAT wrote:
    im sticking with what i said it makes more sense!!

    :D

    Fair enough i think your way sound better to be
    honest but it doesnt always go with the plan does it.If it was the same every time students could just remember past exams methods and not understand fully what is happening. anyway good luck
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    I could understand if it wasnt for planning purposes but section 1 is about planning and in the original budget I needed 4305 to meet production. But when we found out we only had 17 staff, this was hours available of (17x35x5)+(17x80) = 2975+1360 = 4335! leavng 30 hours left over! But we needed 200hrs for sigma and 150 hours for the other one total of 350 hours needed! this was the shortfall, and t was down to the sickness, had we still had 20 then enough labour would have been avaiable but they were off sick
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    I'm with Ashy..... sure it said in period 7 that three employees were unavailable due to sickness and that overtime was limited to 80 per employee per period.
    Suggested agency staff - besides, you can't just sack three employees for being sick!!! :shock:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    if its true to recalculate the hours from scratch (which i didnt do), then i wonder if anyone then went back over the original production budget and calculated all the opening/closing stocks as a result of the increase in sales, then recalculated the cost of materials??? :wink:

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