Jack the owner and manager of jacks Box Company, wants to monitor usage at work center 3, which is a bottleneck in the system. He has collected on the planed and actual input and output.
(a)Complete the input/output record.
(b) Describe your concerns biased on the results of the input/output analysis.
2. Since jack believes that work center 3 is the bottleneck, he has asked you to do the following.
1.) Calculate the percentage of planned output needed to complete the planned inputs (planned input + backlog/planned output) at Work Center 3.
2.) Calculate the percentage of planned input that actually happened (actual input + backlog/planned input + backlog).
3.) Calculate the percentage of available output that was actually accomplished (actual output/planned output) at Work center 3.
4.) Given your results, do you believe Jack is correct in assuming that Work Center 3 is his bottleneck? Justify your answer.