At the BlueFin Bank corporate headquarters, management was discussing the potential of outsourcing the processing of credit
Question:
At the BlueFin Bank corporate headquarters, management was discussing the potential of outsourcing the processing of credit card transactions to Data Ease, an international provider of banking operational services. Processing of the transactions at Bluefin has been a costly element of the annual profit and loss statement and the continual investment in equipment to keep up to date has been draining capital reserves. Based upon initial study and negotiations, Data Ease will charge $0.02 more per transaction than BlueFin’s cost per transaction, and Data Ease will want $12 million per year to cover equipment and overhead costs associated with the contract. Bluefin has yet to develop an estimate for the annual overhead and fixed costs associated with processing the transactions. These costs include supervision, administrative support, maintenance, equipment depreciation, and overhead. If BlueFin must process 20 million transactions per year, how high must those fixed costs be before it would pay to use Data Ease?
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Operations management processes and supply chain
ISBN: 978-0136065760
9th edition
Authors: Lee J Krajewski, Larry P Ritzman, Manoj K Malhotra