A manufacturing process is installing a Kanban system with a container size of 10 and a lead time of 15 minutes. The safety stock is set at 20 percent and the demand is for 120 per hour. Answer the following. (25 Marks)

a. Based on this information what is the value of N?

b. If the safety stock level changes to 50% what is the impact on N and the other variables?

c. If the d is increased to 160 what is the impact on N?

d. If the container size is increased to 15 what is the impact?

e. If the lead time is changed to 10 minutes what is the impact on N?