The federal government calculates its budget on a fiscal year that begins each year on October 1 and ends the following September 30. At the beginning of the 2005 fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast that the federal budget deficit would be $368 billion. Federal expenditures were $37 billion less than the CBO had forecast, and federal revenues were $12 billion more than the CBO had forecast. Is it likely that the economy grew faster or more slowly during fiscal year 2005 than the CBO had expected

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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?

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)