Outdoor Luggage, Inc., makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company’s most popular models appear below.

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Outdoor Luggage, Inc., makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company’s most popular models appear below.

 

  Ski
Guard
Golf
Guard
Fishing
Guard
Selling price per unit $ 250   $ 250   $ 255  
Variable cost per unit $ 160   $ 140   $ 155  
Plastic injection molding machine processing
time required to produce one unit
13 minutes   6 minutes   5 minutes  
Pounds of plastic pellets per unit 7 pounds   10 pounds   6 pounds  
 

 

Required:

1. If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product?

2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine?

3. If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product?

4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets?

5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?

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