A company is negotiating with a potential supplier for the purchase of 100,000 widgets. The company estimates

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A company is negotiating with a potential supplier for the purchase of 100,000 widgets. The company estimates that the supplier’s variable costs are $5 per unit and that the fixed costs, depreciation, overhead, and so on, are $50,000. The supplier quotes a price of $10 per unit. Calculate the estimated average cost per unit. do you think $10 is too much to pay? Could the purchasing department negotiate a better price? How?

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Introduction To Materials Management

ISBN: 978-9386873248

8th edition

Authors: Arnold J. R. Tony, Gatewood Ann K., M. Clive Lloyd N. Chapman Stephen

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