Click to go back, hold to see history Readir Chapter 11 Homework (Application) eBook External Linkages, Activity-Based Supplier Costing Cortalo, Inc., manufactures riding lawn mowers. Cortalo uses JIT manufacturing and carries insignificant levels of inventory. Cortalo manufactures everything needed for the riding lawn mowers except for the engines. Several sizes of mowers are produced. The most popular line is the small mower line. The engines for the small mower line are purchased from two sources: Verity Engines and Villa Machining. The Verity engine is the more expensive of the two sources and has a price of $330. The Villa engine is $297 per unit. Cortalo produces and sells 13, 200 units of the small mower. Of the 13,200 engines purchased, 2,400 are purchased from Verity Engines, and 10,800 are purchased from Villa Machining. Although Linda Vasquez, production manager, prefers the Verity engine, Mark Shorts, purchasing manager, maintains that the price difference is too great to buy more than the 2,400 units currently purchased. Mark, however, does want to maintain a significant connection with Verity just in case the less expensive source cannot supply the needed quantities. Even though Linda understands the price argument, she has argued in many meetings that the quality of the Verity engine is worth the price difference. Mark remains unconvinced. Li Sun, controller, has recently overseen the implementation of an activity-based costing system. He has indicated that an ABC analysis would shed some light on the conflict between production and purchasing. To support this position, the following data have been collected: I. Activity cost data: $264,000 Testing engines Reworking products 440,000 330,000 Expediting orders Repairing engines 594,000 All units are tested after assembly, and a certain percentage are rejected because of engine failure. Defective engines are removed, replaced (supplier will replace any failed engine), and retested before being sold to customers. Engine failure often causes collateral damage, and other parts need to be remanufactured and replaced before the unit is again functional. Due to late or failed delivery of engines, Repair work is for units under warranty and almost invariably is due to engine failure. Repair usually means replacing the engine. This cost plus labor, transportation, and other costs make warranty work very expensive. dRepair work is for units under warranty and almost invariably is due to engine failure. Repair usually means replacing the engine. This cost plus labor, transportation, and other costs make warranty work very expensive. II. Supplier data: Villa Verity Engines replaced by source 1,089 11 Rework hours 5,390 110 Late or failed shipments 108 2 Warranty repairs (by source) 1,342 33 Upon hearing of the proposed ABC analysis, Linda and Mark were both supportive. Mark, however, noted that even if the analysis revealed that the Verity engine was actually less expensive, it would be unwise to completely abandon Villa. He argued that Verity may be hard pressed to meet the entire demand. Its productive capacity was not sufficient to handle the kind of increased demand that would be imposed. Additionally, having only one supplier was simply too risky. Required: 1. Calculate the total supplier cost (acquisition cost plus supplier-related activity costs). Villa 240 x Verity $ 80 Convert this to a per-engine cost to find out how much the company is paying for the engines. If required, round your answers to the nearest cent. Villa $ 3,000 X per engine Verity $ 432 X per engine Which of the two suppliers is the low-cost supplier? Villa X Check My Work Previous Next