MGOC10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Variable Cost, Carrying Cost, Trick-Trick
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Chapter 4 applications of lp part 2. Operations management example workforce assignment mccormick mfg. Workforce assignment problems occur when production managers make decision about staffing requirements for a given planning period. Some workers can be assigned to more than one dept. if crossed trained. Each product must go through processing in 4 departments. Mccormick has a cross training program that enables some employees to be transferred between departments. Labor hours may be transferred from one dept to another, cannot be more than max allowed. Formulate lp model to determine how many product 1 and 2 to produce to max profits. Operations management example blending problem grand strand oil company. How to blend 2 or more resources to produce one or more product. Resources contain one or more essential ingredients that must be blended into final products that will contain specific % of each.
