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Stephanie Tran
OPRE 6366
Homework 2
SC Design
1.
a. Based on frequency of each activity, there are 3 levels of decision making:
Low Level (Higher
frequency)
Medium Level (Medium
frequency)
High Level (Low Frequency)
A. Counting the
money in the cash
registers and doing
financial
summaries. (1,460
man-hours per
year)
B. Counting the inventory.
(156 man-hours per
year)
C. Placing an order for
replenishment of
inventory. (52 man-hours
per year)
D. Stocking the incoming
inventory. (156-man
hours per year)
E. Staffing for rush times
that occur in the
morning and around the
noon.
G. Advising one of the
cashiers assemble 5-10
sandwiches whenever
the cooks get more than
45 seconds behind their
work.
F. Deciding on the
sequence of
operations that are
performed in serving
the client (done once
at the opening of
business, might be
changed but not
frequently)
The arrow indicates input  decision relationship (i.e. B, C, D are inputs for A)
b. We can see that based on the frequency decomposition approach above, F will be input