Question Description
Q-1.
How should Biopharma have used its production network in 2013? Should any of the plants have been idled? What is the annual cost of your proposal, including import duties?
Q-2.
How should Landgraf structure his global production network? Assume that the past is a reasonable indicator of the future in terms of exchange rates.
Q-3.
Is there any plant for which it may be worth adding a million kilograms of additional capacity at a fixed cost of $3 million per year?
Q-4.
How are your recommendations affected by the reduction of duties?
Q-5.
The analysis has assumed that each plant has a 100 percent yield (percentage output of acceptable quality). How would you modify your analysis to account for yield differences across plants?
Q-6.
What other factors should be accounted for when making your recommendations?