Ice Rides manufactures snowboards. Alfred Castro, the CEO, is trying to decide whether to adopt a lean

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Ice Rides manufactures snowboards. Alfred Castro, the CEO, is trying to decide whether to adopt a lean thinking model. He expects that adopting lean production would save $102,000 in warehousing expenses and $36,500 in spoilage costs. Adopting lean production will require several one-time up-front expenditures: $12,500 for an employee training program, $41,500 to streamline the plant's production process, and $8,500 to identify suppliers that will guarantee zero defects and on-time delivery.
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1. What are the total costs of adopting lean production?
2. What are the total benefits of adopting lean production?
3. Should Ice Rides adopt lean production? Why or why not?
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