Question: What is the forecast for the demand on products and services for the next 12 months? how will it be monitored?

Dandy is a meat manufactuer in Toronto. You have been located in Windsor for many years.

Details:

• Your space is 3500 square feet, with 4 shipping / receiving docks
• Office Staff 5 employees and 4 Operations employees.
• Products to be produced:
• Soft Tofu 1200 lbs per week
• Firm Tofu 1000 firms per week
• Dessert Tofu - 200 lbs per week
• Summer months Dessert Tofu goes up 660 lbs per week
• Shelf life 7 days refrigerated
• Shelf life 6 months if in the freezer
• Approx. 55% of product is refrigerated

• Target market: Chinese and Asian people living in that area
• Products to be sold to North American Grocery stores, T&T Supermarket and small ethnic grocery stores. You must deliver the goods to each location

Statement of Assumptions:

• The plant is producing the same amount of product to cover demand.

• The employees work regular full time work schedules (8 hours per day, 5 days per week).

• Soft and firm tofu are both sold for $3.75 per pound.

• Dessert tofu is sold for $2.50 per pound.

• Workers spend an average of 30 minutes of billable work time per day idle.

• Workers have a 30 min unpaid lunch break and two 10 minute unpaid breaks per day.

• focuses on quality, delivery, and flexibility for their competitive priorities and assumptions are made within these sections pertaining to the specifics of tofu manufacturing.

• has a rigorous inspection process that includes immediate recall if some product is found to be of poor quality.