Individual Assignment - You are NOT allowed to work with anyone else for this assignment. This means that you are NOT allowed to discuss with other the solution or your approach to solving this case.
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*** Reminder of the Honor
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Individual Assignment
- You are NOT allowed to work with anyone else
for this assignment. This means that you are NOT allowed to discuss with other
the solution or your approach to solving this case. Even more strictly, you are
NOT allowed to share a soft copy of any of your work on the assignments. Nor is
it permissible for one student simply to tell another student the answer,
neither share your final paper by any means (not electronically, hard copy or,
verbally).
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Apply the knowledge
acquired in the Data Optimization class and through the use of Solver help the
management team of Maple Inc. reach a conclusion. At minimum, consider doing
the following:
1.
Read the case, “Designing
Optimal Capacity Planning Strategies”
2.
Calculate the optimum
production schedule for the five years demand with the Guadalajara plant.
3.
Calculate the optimum
production schedule for the five years demand without Guadalajara plant.
4.
Calculate the yearly cost
savings of opening the Guadalajara plant
5.
Prepare a proposal for
the management team of Maple on what to do:
o Should they open the Guadalajara plant? Why yes or why
not?
o Should they shut down the operations of any plant?
o Be sure to provide management implications of your
recommendations
o 
including: HR, Marketing,
PR Production, and Finance.
Deliverables
1 of 2: Submit your Excel
file with your work in solver and any relevant calculations (building this
should take you between 90 to 120 minutes).
2 of 2: Submit a maximum
one Word page (~500 words, excluding exhibits) with your write-up including the
answers above. (Do not structure as Q&A, prepare a business report
addressed to Richard Rubrics).
