, based upon the Presidents concerns your team evaluated the make or buy considerations for the desk top and the steel frame components and prepared a list of important specifications that would be required if you outsourced these components to outside firms/suppliers.

1. Based upon the production plan to produce 200 desks/units in one production run and the dimensions provided, you must ensure that you will purchase the correct quantities and consider the total cost of ownership of the materials to be purchased and not just the price of each component. Explain/justify how you have taken Total Cost of Ownership into consideration.

The supplier should deliver the exact sizes and dimensions of each like below. o Desktop-"X 4'X 8' Red Oak Shop Grade Plywood Plastic casters- Hard floor, plastic stem casters, with brake. 8" Diameter, 2 width. Plastic (PVC) end caps - top frame-1.1/2" X 2 1/2" OD (outside dimension). 1 X2V" ID 4inner dimension to fit inside top frame Ide o Tabletop and upper vertical support leg-1%" X 27" X.065 wall welded rectangular steel tube-20' lengths. o Lower horizontal legs-IX*X2X"X.065 wall welded rectangular steel tube- 30' lengths