Personnel Assignments for a Range of Customers per Week As the number of customers per week increases, the number of people required to service them is also augmented. Each person, as they are added, raises the F.T.E. (full-time equivalent) number. The behavior typically is: Variable Requirements Ho...

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Tax rate is nominally specified as the U.S. Federal rate, but can be any rational value. Depreciable portion specifies the percentage of the total investment that must be depreciated (here using 7 year MACRS). The remainder is expensed in year zero. Year n savings is the projected decrease in operat...

Working Days per Year and Shifts per Day are used to compute total time required. The time type must be "1" for seconds, "2" for minutes, or "3" for hours. No other value will work. Initial values for Cycle Time and Percent Yield must be specified. For a particular Final Percent Yield, mid-range val...

Actual Personnel Assignments Since people must be assigned in contiguous blocks of time, graphs like those shown below readily exhibit how well each work day hour is being covered. As with the requirements, these daily assignment graphs are often very different. Variable Requirements Home Copyright ...