Madagascar Country Analysis

Bay city movers is a small enterprise that specializes in intercity moves. The company currently has a total trucking capacity of at least 36 tons. The company is in the process of replacing its entire fleet of trucks with 1 ton pickup trucks and 2.5 ton moving van type trucks. Here, one ton pickup truck needs 1 worker whereas moving van type truck requires 4 workers. The company currently has 48 employees and has facilities for 40 trucks.

One pick up truck costs $24000 and one Van type truck costs $60000. The company aims at minimising its investment in buying trucks that will provide the minimum capacity of at least 36 tons while not require any new hires.

Bay City Movers also has many alternatives that can be considered before purchasing:

1. Purchasing only one type of truck.

2. Purchasing the same number of pick-up trucks as moving vans.

3. Purchasing the minimum total number of trucks.

The Phang Furniture system Inc. (Fursys), is a small family run business that specializes in furniture manufacturing. Fursys produces two models of stools, Potty and Hardy and is able to sell all the stools it produces.

4. The Phang Furniture System Inc. (Fursys), located in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, is a small, family-run business that manufactures two models of stools, the Potty and the Hardy models, which are sold in "mama stores" throughout northern Malaysia and southern Thailand. Given its existing production capacity and selling price, Fursys is able to sell all the stools it produces.

5. The Potty model is the company's basic model it consists of a plastic top, utilizes one pound of plastic, and takes an average of 15 minutes (0.25 hours) to produce. Fusys sells them for $12.75 each. The Hardy model is the company's better product model. Although the same plastic material