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Professor Eberhard's Log Bed trial with Costco went extremely well. He gained the full business for all Costco stores Nation Wide. He is rolling in money. However, he is greedy, and wants to make even more money. Therefore, he has now built a new production line to build Metal beds.
Based on his past success, Costco has awarded the Professor another Pilot program for Metal beds, this time in the following stores: Los Angelos, Sacramento, Miami, and New York City.
Once again, Costco will not give Professor Eberhard a firm forecast. They will put an initial quantity of 10 beds in each of the pilot stores, and then order more as those are sold.
Using the same Sam's Club data as before ), the Professor would like to create a forecast for his new Costco contract.
Professor Eberhard asks that you help him to determine a proper forecast, as well as a product scheduling strategy. You can do this by doing the following:
Utilize the Sales History found in the "SAMs Bed Sales History" tab of the provided excel file (DATA FOR EXAM 2 FILE FOUND IN D2L). Create a pivot table to help you easily pull the 12 month history, of 2017 sales, at the pilot stores. – Make sure you use the forecast for the relevant bed type only.
Take the total sales history of those 4 stores in 2015 and use that as your Demand in the "Agg Plan – Level vs Chase" tab. Along with this demand, use the following cost and production rate information to analyze what would be more cost effective, a level plan or a chase plan:
Production Cost $78
Inventory Holding Cost $4.35
Lost Sales $330
Overtime Costs $25
Undertime Cost $10
Rate Change Cost $32
Normal Production Rate 170
Ending Inventory (Or beginning) 40
Answer the following:
What is the Total Cost using the Level Loaded Plan?
What is the Total Cost using the Chase Demand Plan?