Chapter 5, Problem 5.49PAE

Refer to the large Pine Valley Furniture Company data set provided with the text.

Consider the composite usage map in Figure 5-1. After a period of time, the assumptions for this usage map have changed, as follows.

• There is an average of 50 supplies (rather than 40) for each supplier.

• Manufactured parts represent only 30 percent of all parts, and purchased parts represent 75 percent-

• The number of direct access to purchased parts increases to 7,500 per hour (rather than 6,000).