IT Modelling Assignment 2

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Introduction
Assignment two entails the use of linear programming and decision optimizing. Based
on assignments one scenario, a decision which might need optimizing needed to be developed.
The scenario on assignment one was about a small ice cream shop which was managed by the
owner only. However, the owner wanted to expand, thus hiring more employees. The scenario
for the second assignment will spin off from that.
The owner will want to employ cooks, cashiers and servers. The cook will prepare the ice
cream, the cashier will handle the costumers paying and the server will serve the ice cream for
the costumers. Since, the owner used to do that single-handed, he will now also contribute as a
cook and as a server.
The model will show how many cooks, servers and cashiers the owner can be able to
employ. There is a constraint of 100 for the total amount of money the owner is able to pay to
the new employees. The required amount of ice cream bowls is 30 and the amount of people that
can be served is 60

The Solver Model

The screenshot shows the decision making model for a week. In the left hand corner is the employees the
owner want to hire. The reason why the owner is part of the list is because he can do some of the work
himself considering that he previously did all the work single-handed. However the number of the owner
will always be 1 while the number of the others can change. The numbers in red show the required
amount for the business to be successful.
The money Constraint
The total amount of money the owner is willing to pay to his new employees is 100. Each new employee
has a set salary with the cook being paid 20, the cashier 10 and the server 8. The owner does not have
a salary as he will take the profit left after all the expenses. The total calculation of the salaries is done by
multiplying the number of workers to their specific salaries and then adding the multiplications up. If the
number calculated is less than 100, the owner might be able to hire more workers. However, if the number
is more than 100, the owner cannot afford that many workers. On the case that that number is equal to
100 that would be the targeted number of workers. Using Excel and the Solver add-in, the targeted cell is
cell E6 which is the amount of money the owner can afford to hire workers with. The changeable data is
the numbers of workers which are cashiers, servers or cooks.
The amount of production constraint
The targeted amount of ice cream bowls produced each week is set as 30. Each individual cook can make
about 10 ice cream bowls per week. However, the owner can also help in the process but since he is
managing the shop as well, he cannot make as much as the cook. Therefore, he can only make 5 bowls of
ice cream per week. The total amount of ice cream bowls produced a week is calculated by multiplying
the number of cooks to the numbers of ice cream bowls produced and then adding this to the number of
ice cream bowls produced by the owner. That is why one of the constraints in solver is that the number of
ice cream bowls a week is equal to or less than 30.
The amount of costumers served constraint
The amount of costumers that can be served on a weekly basis is 60. The server and the owner both serve
30 and 10 respectively. The total amount of costumers served can be calculated by multiplying the
number of servers hired to the number of people they can serve and then adding that value to the number
of people the owner can serve which is 10. Since the number of customers served can only be 60, then
one of the constraints in solver is that, that number is less than or equal to 60 because the staff can not
handle more than that amount of costumers in the shop weekly.

Results
Solver because of the constraints set to it will find numbers suitable to the situation. As it is shown in the
screenshot