Super Dry Beer Inc. is a beer manufacturing entity that operates and serves, only the Japan's beer market. In year 2013, the manufacturer expended its market into South East Asia, where the majority of targeted consumers have different taste for beer, when compared to the Japanese market. To support this expansion, Super Dry Beer Inc. invested $20 million capital investment for a cutting edge fermentation and brewing equipment. This equipment is control by artificial intelligent system, which enable Super Dry Beer Inc to control the taste of its beer. Due to installation of this new equipment, the consumption rate of variable input and output rate of beer are affected. Listed below are; Table documenting consumption rate of input and output rate of beer, in year 2012 and year 2014. Assume that unit cost for all input remain constant. Super Dry Beer Inc's operating schedule for both years are assumed to be constant and is as follow; o 4 weeks per month o 11 months per year Consumption / Output rate Unit cost ($) 122 ton per week 65.4 liter per year $8.2 per liter 5.4 mWatt per month $8.4 per mWatt Consumption/Output rate Unit cost ($) 388 ton per month 1.5 liter per week $8.2 per liter 55.5 mWatt per year $8.4 per mWatt For year 2012 Beer Chemical Electricity For year 2014 Beer Chemical Electricity a) Based on your assigned case, answer the following questions; 1. Determine the multi-productivity measure at year 2012, prior to capital investment 2. Determine the multi-productivity measure at year 2014, after capital investment 3. From the perspective of productivity, is the decision to make the capital investment justified? Justify your conclusion 4. If the unit cost for all inputs in year 2014, were increased by 20%, what would be the impact on the value of multi-productivity measure? Explain the impact from the concept of multi-productivity measure b) Discuss 3 mathematical approaches to manipulate the value of productivity. Support each discussion with a numerical example c) Discuss 3 challenges or issues with regard application of productivity measure. Support each discussion with an example Super Dry Beer Inc. is a beer manufacturing entity that operates and serves, only the Japan's beer market. In year 2013, the manufacturer expended its market into South East Asia, where the majority of targeted consumers have different taste for beer, when compared to the Japanese market. To support this expansion, Super Dry Beer Inc. invested $20 million capital investment for a cutting edge fermentation and brewing equipment. This equipment is control by artificial intelligent system, which enable Super Dry Beer Inc to control the taste of its beer. Due to installation of this new equipment, the consumption rate of variable input and output rate of beer are affected. Listed below are; Table documenting consumption rate of input and output rate of beer, in year 2012 and year 2014. Assume that unit cost for all input remain constant. Super Dry Beer Inc's operating schedule for both years are assumed to be constant and is as follow; o 4 weeks per month o 11 months per year Consumption / Output rate Unit cost ($) 122 ton per week 65.4 liter per year $8.2 per liter 5.4 mWatt per month $8.4 per mWatt Consumption/Output rate Unit cost ($) 388 ton per month 1.5 liter per week $8.2 per liter 55.5 mWatt per year $8.4 per mWatt For year 2012 Beer Chemical Electricity For year 2014 Beer Chemical Electricity a) Based on your assigned case, answer the following questions; 1. Determine the multi-productivity measure at year 2012, prior to capital investment 2. Determine the multi-productivity measure at year 2014, after capital investment 3. From the perspective of productivity, is the decision to make the capital investment justified? Justify your conclusion 4. If the unit cost for all inputs in year 2014, were increased by 20%, what would be the impact on the value of multi-productivity measure? Explain the impact from the concept of multi-productivity measure b) Discuss 3 mathematical approaches to manipulate the value of productivity. Support each discussion with a numerical example c) Discuss 3 challenges or issues with regard application of productivity measure. Support each discussion with an example
