There are two decision screens relating to camera assembly—one for entry-level models and one for multi- featured models. The layout and content of the two screens are essentially identical, except for the numbers of cameras being assembled and the associated revenue-cost-profit data. Both screens entail decisions for how many units to assemble and ship in each of the 4 quarters of the year to retailers in each of the four geographic regions—Europe-Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, and Latin America. The company tends to schedule camera production such that the number of units assembled and shipped in one quarter match expected retail sales in the following quarter. Thus, it produces 20% of expected annual sales in Quarter 1, 20% in Quarter 2, 40% in Quarter 3, and 20% in Quarter 4 to match expected retail sales of 20% of the annual total in quarters 1, 2, and 3 and 40% of the annual total in Quarter 4.Cameras can be assembled internally by 4-person production assembly teams (PATs) working at both regular time and overtime (overtime production is at 1½ times the regular pay scale). The maximum number of units that can be produced at overtime is 30% of the number produced at regular time. The company also has arrangements with contract assemblers to handle the assembly of cameras that management decides not to produce internally at either regular time or overtime. The outsourcing arrangement with contract assemblers involves having the company’s suppliers deliver the correct number and type of components to the contractor’s assembly facilities and then paying the contractor a fixed fee of$25 per camera assembled. Contract assemblers have agreed, as part of their $25 per camera fee, to absorb any extra warranty costs your company incurs in the event that warranty claims on outsourced cameras run higher than the company’s internally assembled cameras—this, in effect, means that the warranty claim rates are identical on outsourced cameras and cameras assembled internally. Contractors deliver all the cameras they assemble directly to the company’s shipping dock for same-day shipment to retailers.
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