Posted: April 28th, 2016

What management changes would you suggest?

Questions:

(a) If you manage a phone assembly department, when during the month would you tend to request that your phone circuit boards be assembled by the board department (everything else being held constant)? Explain why.

(b) Identify various dysfunctional behaviors likely to occur among the phone assembly departments and the board department.

(c) What management changes would you suggest? In particular, what changes would you make in the accounting system? Explain why each change should be made

In preparing for a two-week camping vacation, a family must decide how many of each of six items should be loaded into their sport-utility vehicle. The weight and perceived benefit (Where a larger benefit value indicates a more useful item) of each of the items are given in the attached file. The family’s vehicle can safely carry no more than 120 pounds of these items, given the amount of luggage that has already been loaded into the vehicle. In trying to decide what should be taken on the vacation, the family must ensure that at least half of the total weight of all objects taken is derived from the inclusion of items of type 1, 2, and 3. Also, the family must ensure that at most half of the total benefit of all objects taken is derived from the inclusion of items of type 4, 5, and 6.

Objective:
Formulate and solve an appropriate integer programming model to help this family decide how many units of each type of item to take to maximize the total benefit to be achieved.