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Purpose: Calculate the monetary impact of value-added and non-value-added activities

KSAs: Understand analysis approaches for value-added and non-value-added activities

Points: 10

Admin: None

Discussion Initial Response Due by Wednesday: Below are a list of value-added and non-value-added quality control activities.

Part 1: Analyze the percentage of value-added and non-value-added activities. Show your work. Part 2: After thoroughly reviewing all the activities, you realize you cannot eliminate any of the non-value-added activities. List three plans for reducing the monetary impact of the non-value-added activities. Please avoid bullets for this submission and be specific with your recommendations. For example, "Increase training" is not specific and will not receive full points.

Quality Control Activities	Activity Cost	Classification
Design engineering	$ 75,000.00	Value-added
Disposing of rejected materials	$ 170,000.00	Non-value-added
Finished goods inspection	$ 125,000.00	Value-added
Materials inspection	$ 70,000.00	Value-added
Preventive maintenance	$ 125,000.00	Value-added
Processing returned materials	$ 135,000.00	Non-value-added
Disposing of scrap	$ 215,000.00	Non-value-added
Assessing vendor quality	$ 35,000.00	Value-added
Rework	$ 410,000.00	Non-value-added
Warranty work	$ 275,000.00	Non-value-added
Total activity cost	$ 1,635,000.00