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Your company is planning the next 5 months of production and you are to develop the high level (aggregate) plan.

The costs are given in the table below.

The marketing department prefers to never allow backorders if possible.

The companys level strategy keeps your workforce fully utilized while first allowing overtime production (up to 100 crates per period) and then using your subcontractor (up to 35 crates per period).

Note that one additional employee was added in period 3 to increase regular production.

The forecast is given below.

Warehouse B reports that you have 42 crates to begin with.

Period

1

2

3

4

5

Totals

Forecast (crates)

700

500

550

600

500

2,850

Capacity on regular shift

450

450

480

480

480

2,340

Output

Regular

Overtime

Subcontractor

Output Forecast

Inventory

Beginning

Ending

Average

Backlog

Costs

Regular @ $310 / crate

Overtime @ $460 / crate

Subcontractor @ $560 / crate

Hire / Lay Off @ $150 each

Inventory @ $100 / crate

Backlog @ $18 / crate

Total Costs:

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