mini case study: cost estimation at global green publishing

Mini-Case Study: Cost Estimation at Global Green Books Publishing customized eBooks as a key nevw Global Green Books Publishing is continuing to produce product line for it as a successful printing and publishing company. It has developed a template to help plan job orders. The major customer for these customized eBooks is a local colege, W expected these books to be delivered at a low cost, and the company doing that. The Accounting department in Global costs for each of the books has not always been Green Books was having difficult tracking the Each eBook had a separate job order prepared that listed all the steps that completed, so that tasks could be assigned to each worker and costs estimated existing job orders, estimates of time required for each task were after the work was done, causing problems not completed until as workers were supposed to move on to new tasks but were still finishing their previous tasks. Some tasks required specialized equipment or skim sometimes from other groups within Global Green Books. Along with its template for job orders, Global Green Books wanted to start developing a project estimate for each new eBook project. This cost estimate should capture dire indirect ct costs and costs. The direct costs for an eBook project include labor costs for those in the company working on the project, materials costs (if any), subcontractor or outside labor, and equipment images used in the eBook. Indirect costs for these eBooks computer and facility costs. Material costs for these eBooks include any permissions costs for content and support costs and sales commissions for each eBook project. For an incoming eBook order for an eBook for a European History labor costs are projected during the Plan Order Phase: course, the following internal Phase Category Rate Hours Task Staff Receive Order Receive Order Receive Order Receive Order Customer Service CSR 12.00 25 Check Order Customer ServiceCSR Representative Customer Service CSR-1 16 Representative Supervisor 12.00 .50 * Verify Order 16.00 1.0 Plan Order Plan Order Plan Order Plan Order Plan Work Assign Work Estimation Reserve Equipment Senior-1 28.00 1.0 Senior-128.001.0 Senior-1 28.00 1.0 Senior-1 28.00 50 22.00 10 Supervisor Supervisor Publishers DTP DTP Specialist DTP uire Permissions iaison PL Desktop Publishing (DTP) Content Conversion DTP-2 18.00 12.5 12.50 4.0 Production DTP-1 Production Quality Checks Quality TechnicianQc Customer Service CSR-1 16.00 1.0 16.00 3.0 Manage Production Track Production Senior-1 28.003.0 Su or