Brandon Sandall

Blair Thorpe
Andrew Stange
Cody Ballantyne
Ben Vinton
Kevin Talbert

Littlefield Simulation
We made sure that we didn’t buy machines until we absolutely had to so we

could save money in interest. We made sure that we kept track of the queues, so that

once our lead-time got above 80% we would find the area that had the highest

queue and buy a machine for it; then check back a couple hours later and see how it

affected the rest of the line. If it created a bottleneck then we would get a machine

for that one as well.

The strategy was to buy machines to prepare for the forecasted peak in

month 5. Buying a machine and then selling it would cost more than just taking a hit

on the lead-time. So we prepared for the busy season between month 5 and month

6, buying just the right amount of machines at the appropriate times.

After demand peaked and started going back down, we sold off our excess

machinery to bring in more revenue. If we were to do anything differently, we

would have waited just a little bit longer on buying the first machine that we bought.

Other than that, there isn’t much that we would have changed.