Chapter 8 – Teaching Note for Smartphone production at QuickTronics
The case is designed to help students learn how to set up a basic aggregate planning model using linear
1. The first analysis assumes that Rudy maintains a workforce of 667 throughout the year. The planning
667.
Table 1: Optimal Production Plan for QuickTronics using a constant labor force
2. We now consider the case where teams can be hired and fired but we still aim to end the year with
the same number of teams that we started with (667). The optimal production plan is shown in Table 2
Table 2: Optimal Production Plan with Volume Flexibility