Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Operations Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (12th Edition)
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Author: Lee J. Krajewski, Manoj K. Malhotra, Larry P. Ritzman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 9P
The Morning Brew Coffee Shop sells Regular, Cappuccino, and Vienna blends of coffee. The shop’s current daily labor cost is $320, the equipment cost is $125, and the overhead cost is $225. Daily demands, along with selling price and material costs per beverage, are given here:
Harald Luckerbauer, the manager at Morning Brew Coffee Shop, would like to understand how adding Eiskaffee (a German coffee beverage of chilled coffee, milk, sweetener, and vanilla ice cream) will alter the shop’s productivity. His
- Calculate the change in labor and multifactor productivity if Eiskaffee is added to the menu.
- If everything else remains unchanged, how many units of Eiskaffee would have to be sold to ensure that the multifactor productivity increases from its current level?
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Exercise 3
Costs for a month in which it produced 800 units. The production manager was asked to
review these costs and provide her best guess as to how they should be categorized.
He responded with the following information:
Total Costs
Variable Costs
Fixed Costs
Material used in Production
OMR 420000
420000
Labour, used in Production
214000
100000
114000
(Assembly and supervisor)
Production Facilities cost( rent
115000
90000
250000
„Insurance, Utilities,.)
Total production cost
749000
610000
139000
Required:
A. Describe the production costs in the equation form Y = f + vX
B. Assume Company intends to produce 1200 units next month. Calculate total
production costs for the month.
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