BC Assignment IIT Deadline: 11.55 pm September 30, 2015 (Wednesday) Question A: Analyzing Manager Performance at Home Station You are a regional manager for Home Station, a national chain of home renovation stores. You are analyzing the weekly sales data for one of the retail stores located in Austin, Texas. The sales data is reported by department and manager. The Austin store manager wants to rotate the department managers in each of the store's departments so each manager becomes more fami with the entire store’s operations. You have been assigned the task of determining the impact of rotating the managers on store sales. You will import the sales data from a database into Excel and then create a PivotTable report to summarze the quarterly sales by department and by ‘manager. Complete the following: 1. Create a new Excel workbook = and-—save_ it’ as, RollNo HomeStationAustin Assign3.alsx. 2. Import the information from the Sales table in the Sales.acedb database located in the BC Assignment III folder on moodle into a worksheet named Salles. 3. Create a PivotTable report using the data in the Sales worksheet and place the PivotTable report in a new worksheet named Austin. 4, Use the PivotTable report to analyse the sales by department. Change the number format of the sales data to currency and sort the sales so that the department with the highest sales appears first. 5. Rearrange the fields in the PivotTable report to analyze department sales by quarter. Which department had the highest quarerly sales, and in which quarter did it occur? (Hint: Use the Date field to summarize the dates by quarter.) 6. Add the Manager field to the PivotTable report to analyze each department's quarterly sales performance by manager. Which manager had the highest sales for each department? In which quarter did the manager's highest sales occur? 7, Rearrange the fields in the PivotTable report to analyze each manger's quarterly sales performance by department. Which department resulted in the highest sales for each ‘manager? In which quarter did the highest sales occur? 8. Based on the data collected, which manger would you choose to manage cach department on a long-term basis? Support your recommendations with data from the PivotTable report. 9, Save and close the RolINo_HomeStationA ustin_Assign3.xlsx workbook. Note: Type in your answers for above questions 5, 6, 7 and 8 on a separate worksheet named ‘Answers in the RollNo_HomeStationAustin_Assign3.xlsx workbook. Question B: Assigning Specialists to Teams at CKG Auto In the CKG Auto Racing Division, your group builds specialized versions of CKG's Puma sports car for the amateur racing circuit. The operations manager for the racing division, Bob Mather, ‘wants you to identify the most effective way to assign automotive specialists to the three major assembly areas for the Puma: engine and transmission, suspension, and body and frame. Each assembly area requires a two-person team, and there are six people whom Bob can use on thethree teams. After evaluating each team member, Bob assigned a skill level for each of the three assembly areas. The skill levels normally range from 1 to 100 and represent qualifications, training, and experience. Because the cars in the racing division are high-performance vehicles, the skill of the team members is very high, with no team member scoring less than 71 in any area, Bob asks you to assign two team members each to the three assembly areas so that each team member's skills are maximized. The skill levels are maximized by computing the sum of skill levels of the individual team members in each area. Complete the following: 1. Open the Puma.xlsx workbook located in the BC Assignment III folder on moodle, and then save the file as RolINo_PumaAssembly_Assign3.xlsx. 2. Write the formulas that calculate the number of people assigned to an assembly area and the number of assignments for each person, Complete the worksheet to allow Solver to select the top two team members for each team based on the skill levels of the team ‘member. 3. Enter a mathematical formula in the objective cell, and then enter formulas to link the objective cell with the variable cells. Add sample values to the variable cells to ensure that your worksheet is set up correctly and produces the expected results. 4, Create a constraints table in the worksheet that identifies the constraints in this problem. 5. Use Solver to determine the best way to assign team members to the three assembly area teams while maximizing the skill levels ef each team member and team, When you find a feasible solution, create an answer report. 6. Bob wants to see if adding another of his top team members to the mix will increase the skill level of any of the teams in the racing division. Save your Solver model in a blank area of the worksheet, and then create a cepy of the Assembly Area Teams worksheet and name it Assembly Area Teams - Revised. Add Ned Hall to your worksheet with the following skill levels: Engine/Transmission: 97, Suspension: 94, and Body/Frame: 92, 7. Use Solver to determine whether Ned should replace one of the existing team members; and if so, identify which team member Ned should replace. When you find a feasible solution, create an answer report. 8. Save and close the RollNo_PumaAssembly_Assign3.xlsx workbook.