The following is a hypothetical company that does not actually exist but has information provided consistent with a real company.

Starting $20$ years ago, Boro Frozen Foods produced single$-$serve meals. In the beginning, the company produced eight $(8)$ SKUs and ~$4$ million cases and saw annual sales increase from $3\%$ to $6\%$ annually for the first $12$ years. At this time the company was making $6$ million cases per year and had $12$ SKUs. Eight years ago, the company rebranded itself and added BBQ to its portfolio. The company added a line of meals branded Moonshine BBQ and sales increased dramatically reaching a projected $18\mathrm{.}9$ million cases and $45$ SKUs in $2023.$ The products are also very popular in Europe, but the company has not as yet expanded sales outside the United States with the exception of limited volume through an international distributor.

The company added capacity over the years but has reached a point where a major expansion is needed to cover the anticipated growth and to add capacity for new, non$-$single$-$serve offerings $($the European products$),$ current domestic products, new single$-$serve items for both Europe and domestic sales, and to provide additional storage space and an area set up for export and other items required for European products. The expansion will take a full year to complete and will affect current operations as follows.

The plant has four assembly lines that run $2$ shifts per day, $5$ days per week, $50$ weeks per year, eight hours of paid time per shift, and $7\mathrm{.}5$ hours of actual run time $($two $15-$minute paid breaks$).$ Line speed is fixed at the top end $(24$ cases or $288$ individual units per minute$)$ but may be slowed down if needed. The expansion will take place in what is currently a freezer area so a temporary contract to store $30$ million pounds of frozen product will be needed for one year until the project is complete. The expansion will include a new line similar to the current four but more automated $($less labor$),$ two lines for single$-$serve items, a quick change$-$over line that can run single or non$-$single$-$serve products, a line similar to the current lines but designed to meet European manufacturing standards $($export$)$ and increased storage of dry, fresh, refrigerated and frozen items with additional dock area and loading dock capacity.

The company has informed customers that this project will disrupt production in $2024$ but has committed to supplying the same number of total cases plus $2\mathrm{.}5\%$ next year. No single SKU may be increased by more than $7\%$ and each SKU does not have to be increased by the same percentage. The customers have also been informed that up to $12$ current products may be eliminated this year $($SKU rationalization$).$