Dec 16

I assume thats a cbe qs. found it in a revision kit.

Sweet Treats Bakery makes three types of cake: brownies, muffins and cupcakes. The costs, revenues and demand for each of the three cakes are as follow s:

Brownies Muffins Cupcakes
Batch size (units) 40 30 20
Selling price ($ per unit) 1.50 1.40 2.00
Material cost ($ per unit) 0.25 0.15 0.25
Labour cost ($ per unit) 0.40 0.45 0.50
Overhead ($ per unit) 0.15 0.20 0.30
Minimum daily demand (units) 30 20 10
Maximum daily demand (units) 140 90 100

The minimum daily demand is required for a long-term contract with a local cafe and must be met.

The cakes are made in batches using three sequential processes; weighing, mixing and baking. The products must be produced in their batch sizes but are sold as individual units. Each batch of cakes requires the following amount of time for each process:

Brownies Muffins Cupcakes
Weighing (minutes) 15 15 20
Mixing (minutes) 20 16 12
Baking (minutes) 120 110 120

The baking stage of the process is done in three ovens which can each be used for eight hours a day, a total of 1,440 available minutes. Ovens have a capacity of one batch per bake, regardless of product type.

Sweet Treats Bakery uses throughput accounting and considers all costs, other than material, to be ‘factory costs’ which do not vary with production.

On Wednesday, the mixing process is identified as the bottleneck process. On this day, only 120 minutes in the mixing process are available.

Assuming that Sweet Treats Bakery wants to maximise profit, what is the optimal production plan for Wednesday?

1) 80 brownies, 30 muffins and 100 cupcakes

2) 0 brownies, 90 muffins and 100 cupcakes

3) 120 brownies, 0 muffins and 100 cupcakes

4) 40 brownies, 60 muffins and 100 cupcakes

Hi John I have posted my query in the first post.
I got 120 brownies and 100 cupcakes with zero muffins.

Part b : Optimum production Plan.
After ranking Cupcakes have the first rank Brownies second and Muffins third.
Mixing has 120 minutes available and thats bottleneck as per the Q.

Now the optimum plan, I can’t get it right for some reason.
0.6 min are available for 1 unit of cupcakes (12 min /20 batch size) That makes them produce all 100 units. I am assuming since optimum plan is maximising profit , we should take maximum demand .

That leaves us with 60 minutes. Cant produce all 140 of brownies. Therefore 60min / 0.5 = 120 units and 0 muffins. However answer says 80 brownies 30 muffins and 100 cupcakes. can you please help me with this.

Thanks

Got it Thanks a ton !!