Children’s Toys Most popular wooden toy:【D1】______ The wooden toy is for【D2】______ Output per【D3】______: 4,000 items Average【D4】

Well, the next product I want to move onto is children’s toys. In this part of building, we manufacture several different wooden toys. But the greatest demand is for our train sets. These are made up of ten pieces and each piece is a different color. It’s a toy for the under-fives and it sells well. We manufacture 1 , 000 of these every week. That’s a total production of 4, 000 a month. Over here, we put all the toys into boxes. Because this is a product for young children, everything has to be very carefully checked beforehand. So the average time it takes for packaging is 5 minutes per box.
    We supply a lot of large department stores throughout the country. Orders are not constant, but go up and down depending on what time of the year it is. So we try to keep about 1 , 000 boxes in storage at any one time. That’s the number that we have at the moment anyway. As I said, we deliver our children’s toys to stores around the country. Outside, we’re just loading up the lorries which are going to set off tomorrow. That’s November third. Then there won’t be another dispatch until 10th, November.
    We have 20 drivers working in this area at the moment and we have 40 staff working on the production lines. As we need to work at night as well during the day, everyone does some kind of shift work, though the hours vary according to area of production that they’re working.