A manufacturing company has an order for a specific new product. The order quantity is 45,000 units. Given the information in the table which type of process do you think they should choose for a product Related costs are, Process Fixed cost for order Unit variable cost for order Job £80k £50 Batch £200k £30 £20 Mass (requiring a more expensive moulding tool) £800k O Mass production O Could be either batch or mass for the given order quantity Could be either jobbing or batch for the given order quantity Batch production Jobbing production

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A manufacturing company has an order for a specific new product.
The order quantity is 45,000 units.
Given the information in the table which type of process do you think they should choose for a product
Related costs are,
Process
Fixed cost for order
Unit variable cost for order
Job
£80k
£50
Batch
£200k
£30
Mass (requiring a more
expensive moulding tool)
£800k
£20
Mass production
Could be either batch or mass for the given order quantity
O Could be either jobbing or batch for the given order quantity
Batch production
O Jobbing production
Transcribed Image Text:A manufacturing company has an order for a specific new product. The order quantity is 45,000 units. Given the information in the table which type of process do you think they should choose for a product Related costs are, Process Fixed cost for order Unit variable cost for order Job £80k £50 Batch £200k £30 Mass (requiring a more expensive moulding tool) £800k £20 Mass production Could be either batch or mass for the given order quantity O Could be either jobbing or batch for the given order quantity Batch production O Jobbing production
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