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Little Brownie Bakers, the Girl Scout Cookie Baker, must deliver 200,000 boxes o

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Question

Little Brownie Bakers, the Girl Scout Cookie Baker, must deliver 200,000 boxes of cookies per month. The shop produces batches of cookies requiring a setup time of 45 minutes for each production batch. Average standard time for each cookie in a batch is 12 seconds, and there is an average of 700 cookies in a batch. Each box has 20 cookies per box. The bakery workforce for the pressing department consists of two workers per press, two supervisors and one clerical support staff. There are 8 hours worked per day and an average of 21 days 1. per month at one shift per day. a. Determine how many cookie presses are needed to satisfy production requirements for the month. There are 8 hours worked per day and an average of 21 days per month at one shift per day. Determine the number of workers for the presses, the number of supervisors and the number of clerical support staff that would be needed. b.

Explanation / Answer

200000 boxes 20 cookie per box

45 min set up 700 cookie

12 sec each cookie

2 worker per press

A) Assuming one press is required for one cookie, The number of cookie presses required to satisfy production requirement = Number of Cookie boxes to deliver*Number of cookies in a box = 200000*20 = 4000000

B)

Time taken to prepare 700 cookies = Setup Time + Production Time per cookies*Average Batch Size = 45*60+12*700 = 11100 seconds = 185 min

Number of Batches required to fulfil production requirement = Production requirement/Average Batch Size = (Production requirement in boxes*Quantity of cookies in each box)/Average Batch Size = (200000*20)/700 = 5714.286 ~ 5715

Time Taken by Total number of batches required to fulfil production requirement = Number of Batches required to fulfil production requirement*Time taken to prepare 700 cookies (or a batch) = 5715*185 = 1057275 minutes = 17621.25 hours

We know, Two workers are required for each press. Therefore number of worker required to complete all presses = number of cookie presses required to satisfy production requirement*Number of workers required per press = 4000000*2 = 8000000

One shift of Two supervisor provides duty of 8 hours over 21 days i.e 8*21= 168 hours over the month.

Number of shift required to fulifil production requirement = Time Taken by Total number of batches required to fulfil production requirement/Time available from one shift = 17621.25/168 = 104.88 ~ 105 shifts

Total Number of Supervisor required = Number of Supervisor required shift*Number of Supervisor per shift = 105*2 = 210

Total Number of Clerical support staff required = Number of Clerical support staff required shift*Number of Clerical support staff per shift = 105*1 = 105

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