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- Helen Teague, for
- OOPS: Our Overnight Planning System
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- Take out a sheet of paper and put your heading on it.
- Open a Word Document, Minimize the document window.
- Open an Excel window, Minimize the spreadsheet window.
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- You will be responding to actual events in the operation of a floral
store on its biggest holiday of the year.
- On your paper, number 1 and 2. For #1, name your floral shop.
- #2). Tell me how long you have been in business in our town.
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- Create a spreadsheet for your bouquet costs using the data below. Use
your business name as the title of the spreadsheet. Format attractively
and Save the spreadsheet as “floralshop”
- Flowers~cost per dozen $4.00
- Vases~ $.75 each • Plastic Wrapping~$.50
- Ribbon~per bouquet $.50
- Labor~$1.00
- Gift Cards~ $.02
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- You estimate that each delivery will be no more than 10 miles round trip
and that gas for deliveries will run $.85 per delivery.
- Add the gasoline category to your spreadsheet. Total the cost of all 7
expenses. This is what each bouquet will cost you. Save but don’t print.
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- #3.) How much money do you have to spend on bouquet contents if you have
250 orders placed already? Place this as your answer to #3.
- #4.) How much additional should you spend for additional, last-minute
orders?
- #5.) If you want to make a 25% profit on each bouquet, what should you
charge?
- Add an amount if you want to make a higher profit.
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- Using MSWord, Clip Art, Word Art, AutoShapes and attractive colors and
fonts, design an advertisement to run in our local paper advertising
your bouquets and deliveries.
- Save as floralshopad. Do not print until your file is approved.
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- #6.) As of today, you have an additional 25 orders for a total of 275
orders. It takes 10 minutes to construct one deliverable bouquet, how
long will it take to construct all 275 orders?
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- #7. Can you create all 275 bouquets alone?
- #8. Do you need to take on part-time help? #8b.)If you decide to take on
part-time help, where can you find someone on such short notice?
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- #9) You hear that a rival floral shop has just let one of their
employees go. Should you give this employee a chance? Why or why not?
- #9b.)List at least 3 of the duties for which a floral shop employee must
be responsible?
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- Just hung up the phone: several members of the university fraternity saw
your ad in the newspaper and ordered 100 bouquets for their sister
sorority.
- #10.) Name at least 5 things you have to do and put each activity in the
proper order of which needs to be done 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th.
- #11.) Does this change the decision you made in #9?
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- On Friday, you arrive at your store and find the front display window
case has been hit by paint balls.
- #12.) Name at least 5 things you have to do right now. Put each activity
in the proper order of which needs to be done 1st, 2nd,
3rd, 4th, 5th.
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- After dealing with the paint ball incident, you unpack the delivery
shipment and find that half of the vases in the shipment are broken.
- #13.) What do you do? Be specific.
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- It is 6:00 pm and the meteorologist predicts an unexpected freeze.
- #14.) What are at least 3 preparations you need for your greenhouse? Be
specific.
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- It is early morning on Saturday and your delivery guy calls in sick.
- #15.) It is your biggest/busiest day so far !!! All these orders!!! What do you do?
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- #16.) You decide to call the workforce commission for help. They send a
driver. Given that you have 375 orders and each delivery run takes a
minimum of 15 minutes, how many orders can your driver make in an hour?
- #17.) At this rate how long will it take to deliver all 375 orders? What
can be done?
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- #18.) Most people want their orders delivered by 2:00 pm. What can be
done?
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- #19.) It is 4:00pm and 15 orders remain undelivered because no one was
home or at their office to receive their bouquets. You promised
delivery. What do you do?
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- It is midnight. You drag yourself home and remember that you have
forgotten the flowers you promised your beloved. What do you do now?
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