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 can vary up or down according to the strength of global demand for footwear materials and the global percentage usage of standard versus superior materials.

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.

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.

Currently, your company's production facility in the Asia$-$Pacific region has sufficient space to install enough additional footwearmaking 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.