American automakers buy auto parts from independent suppliers rather than produce the parts themselves. in the 1980s, chrysler got about 70 percent of its auto parts from independent suppliers, while ford got about 60 percent and general motors got 25 percent. a decade earlier, the proportions were 50 percent at chrysler, 5 percent at ford, and 20 percent at general motors. why did american automakers decide to outsource most of their parts production? explain why independent producers of auto parts are more efficient than the automakers.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

Blue spruce corp. has the following transactions during august of the current year. aug. 1 issues shares of common stock to investors in exchange for $10,170. 4 pays insurance in advance for 3 months, $1,720. 16 receives $710 from clients for services rendered. 27 pays the secretary $740 salary. indicate the basic analysis and the debit-credit analysis.

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