Which of the following most accurately describes your company's production operations?

Standard and superior materials are sourced from outside suppliers at "base" prices that are currently $$6$ per pair for $100\%$ use of standard materials and $$12$ per pair for $100\%$ use of superior materials; however, these base prices car var or down according to the strength of global demand for footwear materials and the global percentage usage of standard versus superior materials.

Currently, your company's production facility in the Asia$-$Pacific region has sufficient space to install enough additional footwear$-$making equipment to boost production capacity by $1$ million pairs without use of overtime; however, because this facility is able to operate only with older, refurbished equipment, all additional purchases of footwear equipment for the facility must always be refurbished equipment rather than new state$-$of$-$the$-$art equipment.

Branded footwear is typically produced $2$ shifts per day, $5$ days per week; private$-$label footwear is normally produced using only $1$ shift per day $($at night and sometimes on weekends when needed$).$

Currently, your company's North American production facility has sufficient space to install enough additional new or refurbished footwear$-$making equipment to boost production capacity by $3$ million pairs without use of overtime.

TQM$/$Six Sigma quality control programs are used to reduce reject rates while best practices training is used to increase S$/$Q ratings and the number of different models that can be produced each week.