Roget Factory has budgeted factory overhead for the year at $15,500,000. It plans to produce 2,000,000 units of product. Budgeted direct labor hours are 1,050,000, and budgeted machine hours are 750,000. Using a single plantwide factory overhead rate based on direct labor hours, the factory overhead rate for the year is

Barbara flynn is in charge of maintaining hospital supplies at general hospital. during the past year, the mean lead time demand for bandage bx-5 was 65 (and was normally distributed). furthermore, the standard deviation for bx-5 was 6. ms. flynn would like to maintain a 90% service level. refer to the standard normal table for z-values. a) what safety stock level do you recommend for bx-5? safety stock=)what is the appropriate reorder point? reorder point=

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?

Which of the following best describes what production accomplishes? a. efficient use of natural resources. b. a reduction in the size of the labor force. c. an increase in supply that lowers prices. d. value added to resources that already exist.