1. In a manpower planning study of a Wendy's on Preston & Campbell, the following list of events were recorded:

A. Counting the money in the cash registers and doing the financial summaries (done daily, requires 4 man-hours)

B. Counting the inventory (done weekly; requires 3 man-hours)

C. Placing an order for replenishment of the inventory (done weekly; requires 1 man-hour)

D. Stocking the incoming inventory (done weekly, exactly 24 hours after the order is placed, requires 3 man-hours)

E. Staffing for the rush times that occur in the morning and around the noon

F. Deciding on the sequence of operations that are performed in serving a client

G. Advising one of the cashiers assemble 5-10 sandwiches whenever the cooks get more than 45 seconds behind in their work.

a. Create a hierarchy of events following the frequency decomposition approach. Briefly explain the approach that you are using in constructing your hierarchy.

b. Suppose that you are currently studying event E, staffing for the two daily rush periods. According to the frequency decomposition approach, briefly describe which of the decisions above will become inputs and which decisions will be ignored?