The Realco Breadmaster

Introduction
Case 15 is titled The Realco Breadmaster while case 16 is titled A Bumpy Road for Toyota.According to case 15, Johnny Chang, the owner of Realco Company developed a new bread maker which became a big success across the U. S because of its competitive features and pricing. The major issue revolving around the case is that the product lacked formal planning. According to case 15, the issue revolves around the fact that Toyota Company has a highly ambitious growth agenda that seems to strain the technical and human resources as well as undercutting quality. Other additional issues include language barriers and lack of time, which have resulted to production problems. An examination of the two cases and responses to specific questions will be presented.

Case 15: The Realco Breadmaster
Question 1
A master production schedule is defined as a plan developed by a company for staffing, production, inventory and many other variables. Some of the data information incorporated as input in a master production schedule includes production costs, forecast demand, inventory costs as well as many other costs. There is also the output that presents details of production amounts and even levels of staffing for specific period of time. The plan is cost-driven, which implies that it aims at meeting specific requirements at the least cost possible.

A master production schedule for the bread-maker will be presented below. Demand Management | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Weekly demand for bread-maker | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | Working days in a week | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | MPS demand for bread-maker | 3,333 | 3,333 | 3,333 | 3,333 | 3,333 | 3,333 | 3,333 | 3,333 |

Realco Company should update the production numbers since from the