Operations Management
Operations Management
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780132921145
Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
bartleby

Concept explainers

Question
Book Icon
Chapter 13, Problem 1DQ
Summary Introduction

To define: Sales and operations planning

Introduction: Planning is the process that helps the firm to decide a better way to achieve its goals. Before determining the ways to achieve its goals, the firm should understand its objectives, which was the major motive of the planning process.

Expert Solution & Answer
Check Mark

Explanation of Solution

Sales and operations planning help the firm to balance the demand that it had forecasted and the available resources. It would align the competing demand of the firm or organization at the same time as linking the operations in the overall planning process and strategic planning. Sales and operations planning would align the competing demand throughout the way from the supply chain to the final customers.

Want to see more full solutions like this?

Subscribe now to access step-by-step solutions to millions of textbook problems written by subject matter experts!
Students have asked these similar questions
Explain Sales and Operations Planning as a Process?
Describe the elements of amarketing plan.
2. The Ashton Furniture Company manufactures coffee tables and chest of drawers. Last year the company's cost of goods sold was $3,700,000, and it carried inventory of oak, pine, stains, joiners, and brass fixtures, work-in-process of furniture frames, drawers and wood panels, and finished chests and coffee tables. Its average inventory levels for a 52-week* business year were as follows. Raw Materials Oak Pine Brass fixtures Stains Joiners Work-in-Process Frames Drawers Panels Chests Tables Finished Goods Chests Coffee tables *1 week = 7 days Average Inventory 8000 4500 1200 3000 900 200 400 600 120 90 300 200 Unit Cost $6 4 8 2 1 $30 10 50 110 90 $500 350 Formula: Inventory turns = Cost of goods sold / Average aggregate value of inventory Days of supply = Average aggregate value of inventory / (Cost of goods sold / total days) Question: Determine the number of inventory turns and the days of supply for the furniture company.
Knowledge Booster
Background pattern image
Operations Management
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, operations-management and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.
Similar questions
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
Recommended textbooks for you
Text book image
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Operations Management
ISBN:9781285869681
Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson
Publisher:Cengage Learning