Assignment #4 Hershey Chocolate Company

You are responsible for managing the supply of cacao beans for Hershey's Chocolate Company. Your assignment is to determine how many pounds of cacao beans are needed for 30 production days. Our manufacturing operation runs 8760 hours per year.

Givens:

• Manufacturing yield for beans processed into chocolate = 98.85% (1.15% waste).
• Production schedule for next 30 days:

12,000,000 plain Hershey bars, each weighing 1.75 ounces. Bars contain 80% chocolate from beans. The other 20% is from milk, sugar, and flavorings.

8,000,000 Hershey bars with almonds, each weighing 1.75 ounces. Bars contain 65% chocolate from beans.

• Losses within the Hershey bar manufacturing processes, from the batching of ingredients on thru delivery of finished goods candy into the warehouse = 2.05%.
• Historical manufacturing records show actual production of bars to be 96.4% of the schedule.

Using the numbers given, calculate the pounds of cacao beans required for the production of both plain and almond Hershey bars for the next 30 days?

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