Business Administration 1220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Newsprint, Speedy Delivery, Task Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 1220E
• Professor: Sergio Janczak

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Class notes: on wednesday there will be a review of important points that will be on the exam on saturday. The activity with the lowest output is the bottleneck, so you know where you need to increase capacity. Students typically make mistakes when they forget to compare the bottleneck capacity with the original unit (e. g. converting everything into. Calculate each step"s capacity into the same unity. Complaints concerned inferior product quality and increasing late delivery. Plants were designed to produce only a small range of products: you are solving the problem in one plant, not the entire west coast operations. This plant was designed to cut timber at one end and ship large rolls or logs of paper out (in one end, out the other) 95% of the production was newsprint = 98% of profit. 5% of specialty paper = 2% of profit.