Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain 1st Edition by Morgan Swink,Steven Melnyk,Bixby Cooper, Janet Hartley

Exercise 15

A privately owned company manufactures the metal seat frames that are used to make automobile seats.Its customer, the seat manufacturer, forecast that 50,000 frames will be needed next year.The seat frame manufacturer must determine which process to install.One process is more labor-intensive with fixed costs of $400,000 and variable costs of $90 per frame.The second process has fixed costs of $850,000 and variable costs of $75 per frame.Which process do you recommend? Why?