Based on our success in the last Littlefield Simulation, we tried to use the same scheme as last clip. Our ends were to minimise lead clip by cut downing the sum of occupations in waiting line and guaranting that we had adequate machines at each station to manage the capacity. We wanted to maintain the lead clip between.5 and 1 twenty-four hours in order to acquire the maximal sum of gross per occupation. We utilized informations from the first 50 yearss and set it in an Excel chart to calculate the demand for the occupations.
We knew that the demand would follow the same form of increasing to a point, leveling off, and so diminishing at the terminal. Our end was to maintain lead clip to a lower limit in order to maximise our completed orders and addition maximal net incomes. In order to maintain lead clip to a lower limit, we attempted to maintain all of the waiting lines of the Stationss below 4 in order to cut down waiting clip at each station. To carry through this, we ordered more machines for each station.
We started by first purchasing a machine for station 1 on twenty-four hours 52 because it had the highest waiting line. Following, we ordered a machine for station 2 on twenty-four hours 74 and one for station 3 on twenty-four hours 80. This drastically reduced the figure of occupations in waiting line at each station and maintain our lead clip below a twenty-four hours. In hindsight, we should hold waited more than 6 yearss to buy machine 3 until all settled down and we had clip to construct up capital from the machine 2 purchase.
Towards the terminal of the simulation, we used a similar scheme to the last simulation and sold off one of our machines at each station as demand dropped: at twenty-four hours 199, we sold machine 3, at twenty-four hours 207 we sold machine 2, and at twenty-four hours 210 we sold a machine at station 1. One of the first things that we did was reset reorder point for our kits. Pull offing the demand for the kits was new for this simulation since in the last simulation it was taken attention of for us. We knew lead clip for reordering was 4 yearss so we made certain to put the reorder point at 60 kits.
Based on historical informations and our prognosis of future demand, on mean, 10-15 kits were being used per twenty-four hours, so our reorder point had to be at least 60 units to guarantee we had adequate safety stock. Since there were no stock list keeping costs associated with the kits we switched our reorder measure to 500 to cut down the sum of times we had to order and the overall order costs. We knew that by twenty-four hours 218 we would no longer hold control of the ordination, so to guarantee that we did non purchase excessively many kits at the terminal we adjusted our reorder point once more.
At twenty-four hours 203 we switched our reorder point to 5 kits and the reorder measure to 50 to do certain that we would non hold an highly high sum of stock list sitting at the terminal of the twelvemonth, which would non bring forth any gross for us and would be a sunk cost. Our scheme was to acquire as near to zero kits at the terminal as possible without really acquiring at that place and losing a occupation chance. One of the biggest jobs that we encountered in this simulation was our contract.
We didn’t recognize that we had to manually alter the contract we were traveling for, and thought that the gross earned was based on the lead clip. We realized after twenty-four hours 157 that we were merely having $ 750 for each completed occupation, when our lead clip matched up with the contract that paid $ 1250 per completed occupation. Had we realized this mistake earlier and switched our contract to figure 3 that paid $ 1250 we would hold made at least an extra $ 52,000 throughout the procedure.
That extra $ 52,000 would hold moved us up a few topographic points in the standings and made our attempts more successful. In the terminal, we believe that despite a few important errors doing us fall in the rankings drastically, our overall scheme was appropriate for this simulation. Had we realized the contract monetary value issue at the beginning and non moving so fast on the purchase of machine 3, we would hold been a much more competitory concern in comparing to the remainder of the squads.
