Material Management

ADMS 4360 Winter 2013 Assignment #1 Due at 4:00 pm on Sunday, 24 February 2013

Instructions (please read carefully)

1. You may work on this assignment only individually. Please review the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty. Penalties for infractions such as copying of and/or sharing work with other individuals/pairs will be enforced. 2. This assignment may either be handwritten or typed – except where otherwise specified (e.g., where computer output is required). Your name and student ID number must be written on every page of your assignment. Pages are to be numbered in a “page # of #” format (e.g., page 7 of 10), and all pages must be stapled together prior to hard copy submission. E-mail submission is not acceptable. 3. A cover sheet (in MS Word format) is posted on the course website – which must be filled in with the relevant information. You must sign the cover sheet. 4. You may use any available application software (ASW) to work on this assignment, but you must cite the ASW used. The ASW output should be printed out and included as part of the pages of your assignment. 5. Assignments are due as specified; late assignments will NOT be accepted.

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FABBRICA DI CAMICIE DI LAMPEDUSA [25 marks] CASE (TO FOLLOW) [25 marks]

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FABBRICA DI CAMICIE DI LAMPEDUSA

Fabbrica di Camicie di Lampedusa (FCL), Italy, currently produces 12 types of shirts for delivery to various distributors. We are now nearing the end of February 2013. FCL’s demand forecast for the next six months, in aggregate form, is as follows: March 5,000 April 5,000 May 4,500 June 8,000 July 5,000 August 4,000

All shirt types take roughly the same time to produce. FCL currently has an eight-person workforce, each receiving a fixed monthly wage of €600 per month. Each worker is able to complete on average 625 shirts per month during regular time. A worker is paid an additional €1,20 to produce a shirt during scheduled overtime, but total overtime production cannot...