Assignment Old Oregon Wood Store Please answer the questions below. & nbsp;Be

Assignment
Old Oregon Wood Store
Please answer the questions below. & nbsp;Be specific with your answers and provide citations
and references.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of varying the size of the workforce to meet demand?
requirements each period?
What is the difference between a gross requirements plan and a net requirements plan?
CASE STUDY – Old Oregon Wood Store
Read the Case Study in Chapter 15
on page 634 in your textbook and look for this case study at the bottom of the page. Study it
carefully and answer the four discussion questions at the end one by one.
1. What is the fastest way to manufacture Old Oregon tables using the original crew? How many
could be made per day?
2. Would production rates and quantities change significantly if George would allow Randy to
perform one of the four functions and make one of the original crew the backup person?
3. What is the fastest time to manufacture a table with the original crew if Cathy is moved to either
preparation or finishing?
4. Whoever performs the packaging function is severely under-utilized. Can you find a better way?
of utilizing the four-or five-person crew than either giving each a single job or allowing each to
manufacture an entire table? How many tables could be manufactured per day with this scheme?
M7 Assignment UMBO – 4
M7 Assignment PLG –  1,3
M7 Assignment CLO – 3
Please, your answers will be in APA format. Be sure to include properly formatted references and in-text citations in all assignments. “In your own words” means to paraphrase (use references).600+words. please use 5 or more references not older than 5 years