Question: Several years ago, Roberson Robotics outsourced component BF-365, a key component of many of its products. At the time, CFO Sam Summers concluded that outsourcing

Several years ago, Roberson Robotics outsourced component BF-365, a key component of many of its products. At the time, CFO Sam Summers concluded that outsourcing was the correct decision, but she decided to revisit that decision after overhearing some conversations on the factory floor and in the cafeteria. Based on these conversations, she has gathered information about the materials quantity variance for the part, as well as on-time delivery information of the part from the supplier and on-time delivery of the finished products to customers. Roberson Robotics uses a just-in-time inventory system, so it receives multiple shipments of BF-365 each day. Summers has asked you to examine the data and provide insights about the continued desirability of outsourcing component BF-365 .

Required:

    1. Prepare a scatterplot of late deliveries from the supplier over time and a scatterplot of missed customer delivery dates over time. What do you learn from these graphs?
    2. Calculate the percentage of late deliveries from the supplier and the percentage of missed customer delivery dates.
    3. Calculate the proportion of unfavorable materials quantity variances. How has the proportion of favorable to unfavorable variances changed over time? What do you infer about the quality of the outsourced component BF-365?

What other information would you like to examine before providing your insights about the outsourcing decision to Summers?

DATA

Week BF-365 QuantityVariance
1 $ 1,704 F
2 $ 1,188 U
3 $ 1,999 F
4 $ 1,814 F
5 $ 1,743 F
6 $ 1,153 F
7 $ 1,101 U
8 $ 1,162 U
9 $ 208 F
10 $ 647 U
11 $ 1,511 F
12 $ 812 F
13 $ 1,090 F
14 $ 545 U
15 $ 793 F
16 $ 555 F
17 $ 1,253 U
18 $ 1,641 F
19 $ 1,157 F
20 $ 1,668 U
21 $ 933 F
22 $ 64 F
23 $ 1,075 U
24 $ 492 F
25 $ 497 F
26 $ 1,058 U
27 $ 1,502 U
28 $ 443 U
29 $ 1,216 F
30 $ 325 U
31 $ 1,801 F
32 $ 1,035 F
33 $ 653 F
34 $ 301 U
35 $ 320 F
36 $ 1,834 F
37 $ 610 F
38 $ 567 U
39 $ 198 F
40 $ 1,909 F
41 $ 756 U
42 $ 774 F
43 $ 1,272 U
44 $ 847 F
45 $ 626 U
46 $ 1,921 U
47 $ 1,229 F
48 $ 354 U
49 $ 413 F
50 $ 59 F
51 $ 183 F
52 $ 1,305 F
53 $ 898 U
54 $ 1,066 U
55 $ 627 F
56 $ 963 F
57 $ 602 F
58 $ 1,949 U
59 $ 826 F
60 $ 328 U
61 $ 1,074 U
62 $ 1,827 F
63 $ 1,379 U
64 $ 201 F
65 $ 444 U
66 $ 1,474 U
67 $ 1,127 U
68 $ 993 F
69 $ 196 U
70 $ 1,158 F
71 $ 92 F
72 $ 1,296 U
73 $ 1,800 F
74 $ 649 F
75 $ 388 F
76 $ 340 F
77 $ 1,858 U
78 $ 668 U
79 $ 270 F
80 $ 1,602 U
81 $ 1,092 U
82 $ 1,533 F
83 $ 1,996 F
84 $ 1,453 U
85 $ 452 U
86 $ 1,966 F
87 $ 1,622 U
88 $ 1,803 U
89 $ 1,930 U
90 $ 691 U
91 $ 366 U
92 $ 1,479 F
93 $ 1,076 U
94 $ 1,286 U
95 $ 1,176 U
96 $ 464 F
97 $ 935 U
98 $ 1,993 U
99 $ 61 U
100 $ 725 U
101 $ 1,154 U
102 $ 334 U
103 $ 1,303 U
104 $ 1,010 U
Week Total number of BF-365 shipments received Number of late BF-365 shipments Total number of customer shipments Number of missed customer delivery dates
1 34 5 138 1
2 15 6 169 2
3 22 3 183 7
4 10 4 108 2
5 23 5 60 8
6 30 2 132 1
7 10 4 25 4
8 35 3 47 5
9 33 0 118 3
10 37 6 109 5
11 32 0 32 8
12 19 2 149 5
13 24 6 125 5
14 23 0 29 7
15 23 2 169 0
16 21 6 98 4
17 33 0 188 3
18 38 0 152 5
19 25 6 161 0
20 32 4 135 0
21 17 5 106 6
22 37 4 163 0
23 11 3 64 5
24 22 2 167 1
25 38 5 183 3
26 11 2 37 5
27 16 4 28 3
28 17 5 172 6
29 16 5 152 0
30 26 5 139 8
31 23 1 164 4
32 18 2 114 3
33 33 0 146 8
34 31 6 166 8
35 26 5 170 5
36 15 5 168 0
37 11 3 81 7
38 19 2 171 3
39 12 5 25 6
40 10 0 48 7
41 28 6 115 1
42 13 3 90 6
43 32 3 138 4
44 36 4 151 6
45 30 4 53 7
46 17 3 86 6
47 28 2 132 8
48 16 6 146 5
49 14 6 25 6
50 26 2 200 3
51 16 0 167 1
52 15 1 190 8
53 34 0 100 3
54 39 4 91 4
55 19 3 83 3
56 14 1 171 3
57 13 4 46 8
58 25 5 46 7
59 30 5 153 5
60 36 0 108 7
61 22 2 116 8
62 18 6 92 6
63 32 4 135 5
64 30 5 141 3
65 10 0 70 2
66 36 0 54 4
67 13 4 169 2
68 40 2 80 8
69 18 3 110 3
70 37 3 178 6
71 36 2 146 2
72 38 9 132 1
73 19 3 112 0
74 10 6 111 3
75 30 5 132 3
76 36 9 70 0
77 22 12 109 3
78 18 12 20 2
79 17 8 100 0
80 35 8 129 7
81 10 4 68 6
82 39 11 157 6
83 27 9 31 7
84 21 7 117 6
85 33 6 83 2
86 34 5 162 12
87 12 3 113 10
88 17 6 161 20
89 10 4 148 7
90 34 12 55 6
91 24 8 28 18
92 15 4 112 19
93 34 11 160 7
94 25 4 85 15
95 23 9 36 19
96 17 4 34 15
97 34 8 186 8
98 26 10 196 15
99 25 10 148 20
100 32 12 102 9
101 35 10 29 10
102 24 12 63 4
103 19 12 30 12
104 30 14 133 20

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