Delray Manufacturing needs to better budget and analyze costs. While Delray has experienced high sales growth, it has struggled to effectively manage costs and inventories. Delray aims to end each month with direct materials inventory equal to 40% of next months production needs. Each finished unit requires 4 pounds of direct materials and 2 hours of direct labor. Delray budgets $12,000 of fixed overhead costs per month. A Tableau Dashboard is provided to aid our analysis.

Direct Labor rate 18 an hour

Direct Materials Cost 3$

Variable overhead rate 25$ per direct labor hour