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    This document describes a case study about Katherine Rally, the owner of an elite women's clothing company called TrendLines. She must meet with her production manager to determine the production plan for next month's fall line based on material requirements, production capacity, resources, and demand forecasts. The fall line consists of professional and casual clothing items made from materials like wool, cashmere, silk, rayon, and acetate. The document provides a table listing the material requirements, prices, and labor/machine costs for some of the professional fall clothing items.

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    This document describes a case study about Katherine Rally, the owner of an elite women's clothing company called TrendLines. She must meet with her production manager to determine the production plan for next month's fall line based on material requirements, production capacity, resources, and demand forecasts. The fall line consists of professional and casual clothing items made from materials like wool, cashmere, silk, rayon, and acetate. The document provides a table listing the material requirements, prices, and labor/machine costs for some of the professional fall clothing items.

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    Rev.Confirming Pages

    158 CHAPTER 4 SOLVING LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS: THE SIMPLEX METHOD

    subject to this information to identify the shadow price for each re-
    source, the allowable range for each objective function
    3x1  2x2  3x3  x4  24 (resource 1) coefficient, and the allowable range for each right-hand
    3x1  3x2  x3  3x4  36 (resource 2) side.
    and 4.9.1. Use the interior-point algorithm in your IOR Tutorial
    to solve the model in Prob. 4.1-4. Choose   0.5 from the Op-
    x1  0, x2  0, x3  0, x4  0.
    tion menu, use (x1, x2)  (0.1, 0.4) as the initial trial solution, and
    D,I (a) Work through the simplex method step by step to solve the run 15 iterations. Draw a graph of the feasible region, and then
    problem. plot the trajectory of the trial solutions through this feasible region.
    (b) Identify the shadow prices for the two resources and describe
    their significance. 4.9-2. Repeat Prob. 4.9-1 for the model in Prob. 4.1-5.
    C (c) Use a software package based on the simplex method to solve
    the problem and then to generate sensitivity information. Use

    ■ CASES
    CASE 4.1 Fabrics and Fall Fashions She turns back to her sprawling glass desk and looks at
    the numerous papers covering it. Her eyes roam across the
    From the tenth floor of her office building, Katherine Rally
    clothing patterns designed almost six months ago, the lists
    watches the swarms of New Yorkers fight their way through
    of materials requirements for each pattern, and the lists of
    the streets infested with yellow cabs and the sidewalks lit-
    demand forecasts for each pattern determined by customer
    tered with hot dog stands. On this sweltering July day, she
    surveys at fashion shows. She remembers the hectic and
    pays particular attention to the fashions worn by the various
    sometimes nightmarish days of designing the fall line and
    women and wonders what they will choose to wear in the
    presenting it at fashion shows in New York, Milan, and Paris.
    fall. Her thoughts are not simply random musings; they are
    Ultimately, she paid her team of six designers a total of
    critical to her work since she owns and manages TrendLines,
    $860,000 for their work on her fall line. With the cost of hir-
    an elite women’s clothing company.
    ing runway models, hair stylists, and makeup artists, sewing
    Today is an especially important day because she must
    and fitting clothes, building the set, choreographing and re-
    meet with Ted Lawson, the production manager, to decide
    hearsing the show, and renting the conference hall, each of
    upon next month’s production plan for the fall line. Specif-
    the three fashion shows cost her an additional $2,700,000.
    ically, she must determine the quantity of each clothing
    She studies the clothing patterns and material require-
    item she should produce given the plant’s production ca-
    ments. Her fall line consists of both professional and casual
    pacity, limited resources, and demand forecasts. Accurate
    fashions. She determined the prices for each clothing item
    planning for next month’s production is critical to fall
    by taking into account the quality and cost of material, the
    sales since the items produced next month will appear in
    cost of labor and machining, the demand for the item, and
    stores during September, and women generally buy the
    the prestige of the TrendLines brand name.
    majority of the fall fashions when they first appear in
    The fall professional fashions include:
    September.

    Labor and
    Clothing Item Materials Requirements Price Machine Cost

    Tailored wool slacks 3 yards of wool $300 $160


    2 yards of acetate for lining
    Cashmere sweater 1.5 yards of cashmere $450 $150
    Silk blouse 1.5 yards of silk $180 $100
    Silk camisole 0.5 yard of silk $120 $ 60
    Tailored skirt 2 yards of rayon $270 $120
    1.5 yards of acetate for lining
    Wool blazer 2.5 yards of wool $320 $140
    1.5 yards of acetate for lining

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