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Columbia College Producer of Soaps and Operations Management Discussion
Subject
Business Finance

School
Columbia College

Question Description
Answer the following questions from your text in an MS Word document with questions identified by number, page, and title using MLA style. Your answers should provide thoughtful, supporting details, and examples and graphics as necessary.

Questions to answer: Chapter 7, Solve Problems: 1, 3, 7 & 8; Chapter 8, Solve Problems: 1, 3 & 21.

Chapter 7

Question 1.

Jason Carter works for a producer of soaps that come in packages of 6 each. His job is to fill the packages with soap, and he is expected to process 30 packages an hour. The facility where Jason works uses a kanban production system in which each container holds 5 packages of soap. It takes 20 minutes to receive the packages he needs from the previous workstation. How many kanbans are needed for the filling process?

Question 3

A production cell at Canderberry Candle facility operates 5 hours per day and uses a pull method to supply wicks to the assembly line. The wicks are used at a rate of 300 per day. Each container holds 20 wicks and usually waits 20 minutes in the production cell. Management wants a safety stock of 10 percent. How many containers should be used at the Canderberry Candle facility for purposes of pull production?

Question 7

Robert produces 300 units of a product per hour and 30 units are needed to fill a container. It takes 15 minutes to receive the materials needed from the previous workstation. The company currently uses a safety stock of 10 percent. Determine the number of kanbans needed between Robert's station and the previous process.