{"id":1035,"date":"2019-05-06T03:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1035"},"modified":"2023-09-22T19:42:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:42:33","slug":"how-do-i-purchase-scu-in-mikesbikes-advanced","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/how-do-i-purchase-scu-in-mikesbikes-advanced\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Purchase SCU In MikesBikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you have calculated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/how-do-i-calculate-factory-capacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> how much factory capacity you require<\/a>, if your production requirements exceed the available capacity of your factory you can increase this through the&nbsp;<strong>Manufacturing Screen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To increase your factory capacity you will need to enter your required workforce and SCU level in the&nbsp;<strong>Hire<\/strong> <strong>Workers&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Purchase SCU&nbsp;<\/strong>decision fields.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1038 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ManufacturingCapacity.png\" alt=\"mikesbikes-manufacturing-capacity-planning\" width=\"612\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ManufacturingCapacity.png 612w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ManufacturingCapacity-300x262.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ManufacturingCapacity-50x44.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ManufacturingCapacity-60x52.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ManufacturingCapacity-100x87.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More workers can be hired almost instantaneously but a change in plant size takes a year before it is completed, so you will need to plan your plant size changes a year in advance.<\/p>\n<p>SCU can be purchased in multiples of 10 SCU, every 10 SCU of plant costs $1,600 to buy.<\/p>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--danger   hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tToo much capacity relative to production\/sales demand will result in greater idle time (inefficient use of resources causing higher average manufacturing costs per bike) and will have a negative effect on your SHV.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you have calculated how much factory capacity you require, if your production requirements exceed the available capacity of your factory you can increase this through the&nbsp;Manufacturing Screen. To increase your factory capacity you will need to enter your required workforce and SCU level in the&nbsp;Hire Workers&nbsp;and&nbsp;Purchase SCU&nbsp;decision fields. More&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[42],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1035","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-accounting-operations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1035\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}