Livingston Fabrication has created the following aggregate plan for the next five months: August September October November December Forecasted Demand (units of finished goods): 1,500,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 500,000 Production Plan: 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 Assume that Livingston will have nothing in inventory at the end of July. Livingston employs 1,000 production assembly workers and it takes one production assembly worker 5 minutes to assemble one unit of finished good. (The unit is complete at that point.) Each production assembly worker can provide 150 hours of assembly time a month without requiring overtime pay. What will be ending inventory for the month of September?

Resources and capabilities, such as interpersonal relations among managers and a firm's culture, that may be costly to imitate because they are beyond the ability of firms to systematically manage and influence are referred to asanswers: socially complex.causally ambiguous.path dependent.the result of unique historical conditions.

University hero is considering expanding operations beyond its healthy sandwiches. jim axelrod, vice president of marketing, would like to add a line of smoothies with a similar health emphasis. each smoothie would include two free health supplements such as vitamins, antioxidants, and protein. jim believes smoothie sales should fill the slow mid-afternoon period. adding the line of smoothies would require purchasing additional freezer space, machinery, and equipment. jim provides the following projections of net sales, net income, and average total assets in support of his proposal. sandwichesonly sandwiches and smoothies net sales $ 750,000 $ 1,350,000 net income 120,000 210,000 average total assets 350,000 750,000 return on assetschoose numerator ÷ choose denominator = return on assets÷ = return on assets÷ = profit margin÷ = profit margin÷ = asset turnover÷ = asset turnover÷ = times

Which of the following is a competitive benefit experienced by the first mover firm in an industry? a. the first mover will be able to achieve a less steep learning curve. b. the first mover will be able to reduce the switching costs. c. the first mover will not have to patent its products or technology. d. the first mover will be able to reduce costs through economies of scale.