Kitchen Magician, Inc., has assembled the following data pertaining to its two most popular products.     Blender Mixer Direct material $ 6   $ 11   Direct labor   4     9   Manufacturing overhead @ $16 per machine hour   16     32   Cost if purchased from an outside supplier   20     38   Annual demand (units)   20,000     28,000     Past experience has shown that the fixed manufacturing overhead component included in the cost per machine hour averages $10. Kitchen Magician’s management has a policy of filling all sales orders, even if it means purchasing units from outside suppliers. Required: 1. If 50,000 machine hours are available, and management desires to follow an optimal strategy, how many units of each product should the firm manufacture? How many units of each product should be purchased? 2. With all other things constant, if management is able to reduce the direct material for a mixer to $6 per unit, how many units of each product should be manufactured? Purchased?

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Kitchen Magician, Inc., has assembled the following data pertaining to its two most popular products.
 

  Blender Mixer
Direct material $ 6   $ 11  
Direct labor   4     9  
Manufacturing overhead @ $16 per machine hour   16     32  
Cost if purchased from an outside supplier   20     38  
Annual demand (units)   20,000     28,000  
 


Past experience has shown that the fixed manufacturing overhead component included in the cost per machine hour averages $10. Kitchen Magician’s management has a policy of filling all sales orders, even if it means purchasing units from outside suppliers.

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 If 50,000 machine hours are available, and management desires to follow an optimal strategy, how many units of each product should the firm manufacture? How many units of each product should be purchased?
2. With all other things constant, if management is able to reduce the direct material for a mixer to $6 per unit, how many units of each product should be manufactured? Purchased?

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