ABC Inc. will hire 1,000 new computer programmers this year. Managers are considering whether to make or

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ABC Inc. will hire 1,000 new computer programmers this year. Managers are considering whether to make or buy office furniture for the new hires. They can purchase desks for $2,000 per programmer or the can make the desks itself. Equipment to assemble the desks can be scrounged from the company's carpentry shop. That old equipment has already been fully depreciated. Materials cost $500 per desk and labor (and benefits) cost $30 per hour. ABC hired a local shop to build a prototype desk. That desk required 100 hours of labor. If the learning curve is 90 percent, should ABC make or buy the desks?
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Operations Management Processes and Supply Chains

ISBN: 978-0134741062

12th edition

Authors: Lee J. Krajewski, Manoj K. Malhotra, Larry P. Ritzman

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