A manufacturing company sells its products directly to customers and operates 5 days a week, 52 weeks

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A manufacturing company sells its products directly to customers and operates 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year. The production department of this company can produce at the rate of 60 units per day. The setup cost for a production run is $ 125.00. The cost of holding is $ 4.00 per unit per year. The demand for the item is continuous and constant and is 3,900 units per year. The demand occurs only when the company is operating, that is, 5 days a week for 52 weeks. Find the optimum number of units to be produced in one batch (economic production quantity). Round the number to nearest integer.


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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0176223311

1st Canadian Edition

Authors: Karen Wilken Braun, Wendy Tietz, Walter Harrison, Rhonda Pyp

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