At the beginning of the year, barcroft co. estimated that its total annual fixed overhead costs would amount to $25,000. further, barcroft estimated that its volume of production would be 2,000 units of product. based on these estimates, barcroft computed a predetermined overhead rate that was used to allocate overhead costs to the products made during the year. as predicted, actual fixed overhead costs did amount to $25,000. however, actual volume of production amounted to 2,200 units of product. based on this information alone:

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?