Red Star Copy Service processes 2,100,000 photocopies per month at its service center. Approximately 50 percent of the photocopies require collating. Collating is currently performed by high school and college students who are paid $9 per hour. Each student collates an average of 5,000 copies per hour. Management is contemplating the lease of an automatic collating machine that has a monthly capacity of 6,000,000 photocopies, with lease and operating costs totaling $1,550, plus $0.05 per 1,000 units collated.
Required:
A. Determine the total costs of collating 500,000 and 1,700,000 per month:
1. With student help.
2. With the collating machine.
B. Determine the monthly volume at which the automatic process becomes preferable to the manual process.
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Ответ:
A. The total costs of collating 500,000 per month With student help is $900
The total costs of collating 1,700,000 per month With student help is $3,060
The Total costs of collating 500,000 per month With the collating machine is $1,575
The Total costs of collating 1,700,000 per month With the collating machine is $1,635
B. The monthly volume at which the automatic process becomes preferable to the manual process is 885,714
Explanation:
A. In order to calculate the total costs of collating 500,000 and 1,700,000 per month With student help we would have to make the following calculations:
total costs of collating 500,000 per month With student help=(number of copies to be collating/average of copies per hour)*price per hour
total costs of collating 500,000 per month With student help=(500,000/5,000)$9
total costs of collating 500,000 per month With student help=$900
total costs of collating 1,700,000 per month With student help=(1,700,000/5,000)*$9
total costs of collating 1,700,000 per month With student help=$3,060
In order to calculate the total costs of collating 500,000 and 1,700,000 per month With the collating machine we would have to make the following calculations:
total costs of collating 500,000 per month With the collating machine= lease and operating costs+(number of copies to be collating/units collated)*additional price
Total costs of collating 500,000 per month With the collating machine= $1,550+(500,000/1,000)*$0.05
Total costs of collating 500,000 per month With the collating machine= $1,575
Total costs of collating 1,700,000 per month With the collating machine= $1,550+( 1,700,000/1,000)*$0.05
Total costs of collating 1,700,000 per month With the collating machine= $1,635
B. In order to calculate the monthly volume at which the automatic process becomes preferable to the manual process we would have to use the following formula:
the monthly volume at which the automatic process becomes preferable to the manual process is cost with students help=cost with collating machine
Therefore, (x/5,000)*$9=$1,550+(x/1,000)*$0.05
$8,750x=$7,750,000,000
x=885,714
The monthly volume at which the automatic process becomes preferable to the manual process is 885,714
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Question: The company would like to reduce the double and sometimes triple handling of items. How can this goal be achieved? Are there alternative solutions which might also be effective?
1. Using the Just in Time Management inventory technique.
2. Using automated inventory processing systems, changing physical layout of warehouse.
Explanation:
1. The Just in time method would allow Hawkins Supply company to quickly process its inventory by adopting a principle of processing smaller batches with reduced factory space. Doing so would minimise the worries about expired inventory since the inventory isn't excessive.
2. There are automated softwares such as the KANBAN system that would automated the process, requiring lesser use receipts to track inventories. Another alternative is to restructure the warehouse by making provision for racks that could be numbered serially to easily find desired inventory.