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Ingles Corporation is a manufacturer of tables sold to schools, restaurants, hotels, and other institutions. The table tops are manufactured by Ingles, but the table legs are purchased from an outside supplier. The Assembly Department takes a manufactured table top and attaches the four purchased table legs. It takes 16 minutes of labor to assemble a table. The company follows a policy of producing enough tables to ensure that 40 percent of next month's sales are in the finished goods inventory. Ingles also purchases sufficient materials to ensure that materials inventory is 60 percent of the following month's scheduled production. Ingles's sales budget in units for the next quarter is as follows:
July | 2,450 |
August | 2,900 |
September | 2,100 |
Ingles’s ending inventories in units for July 31 are as
follows:
Finished goods | 1,900 |
Materials (legs) | 4,000 |
Required:
1. Calculate the number of tables to be
produced during August.
tables
2. Disregarding your response to Requirement 1,
assume the required production units for August and September are
2,100 and 1,900, respectively, and the July 31 materials inventory
is 4,000 units. Compute the number of table legs to be purchased in
August.
legs
3. Assume that Ingles Corporation will produce
2,340 units in September. How many employees will be required for
the Assembly Department in September? (Fractional employees are
acceptable since employees can be hired on a part-time basis.
Assume a 40-hour week and a 4-week month.) (CMA adapted)
Round your answer to two decimal places.
employees