Chris delozier admired his wife's success at selling scarves at local crafts shows, so he decided to make two types of plant stands to sell at the shows. chris makes twig stands out of downed wood from his backyard and the yards of his neighbors, so his variable cost is minimal (wood screws, glue, and so forth). however, chris has to purchase wood to make his oak plant stands. his unit prices and costs are as follows:

twig stand oak stands
sales price $17 $42.00
variable cost $3.50 $11.00

the twig stands are more popular, so chris sells four twig stands for every one oak stand. debbie charges her husband $255 to share her booths at the craft shows (after all, she has paid the entrance fees). how many of each plant stand does chris need to sell to break even? will this affect the number of scarves debbie needs to sell to breakeven? explain.

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

Acar manufacturer uses new machines that automatically assemble an engine from parts fed to the system. the machine can regulate the speed ofassembly depending on the number of parts produced. which type of technology does this machine use? angenoem mense wat ons in matin en esta va ser elthe machine uses