Difference Between the Plans

The primary difference between the two plans are as follows: -

1. Both plans require hiring 27 workers but in the linear programming (LP) Based plan hires 18 of
these immediately and the remaining 9 in November, whereas Latus postpones hiring new workers
until March and the must then hire more workers to satisfy the peak in demand.
2. The LP based plan uses the extra workers in the first period to create larger inventories of snow
blowers at the end of the first period but then no workers need to be hired in the second period and
less overtime has to be worked in the second and the third periods to handle the large demand in these
periods.
3. The LP based plan never has new workers work overtime because they are very inefficient and
expensive whereas as laust’s plan uses considerable overtime work new workers.