Exercise 10-3 measures of internal business process performance [lo10-3] management of mittel rhein ag of köln, germany, would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. for the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: inspection time 0.5 days wait time (from order to start of production) 15.8 days process time 3.0 days move time 0.8 days queue time 3.5 days required: 1. compute the throughput time. (round your answer to 1 decimal place.) 2. compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (mce) for the quarter. (round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 3. what percentage of the throughput time was spent in non–value-added activities? (round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 4. compute the delivery cycle time. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place.) 5. if by using lean production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new mce? (round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place.)

Acustomer has come to your department with an urgent question. you promised her that you would collect information about her question and answer it by noon. it will take you at least 20 minutes to gather the information needed to provide an answer. it is now 11: 50 a.m. your supervisor just scheduled a 30-minute meeting to start at noon. this meeting is for all employees in your department. you decide to:

In return for their with optimizing his painting project, the castle servant informed poly and digit that he saw someone dressed as the king leaving behind a trail of crumbs as he walked into the jester's room late last night. poly and digit have finally found the crisp-collecting culprit — it turns out the jester's shoe size and hair color match the clues that were found! in gratitude, poly and digit agree to the servant with his current task of replacing all of the tables and chairs in the castle. his goal is to determine which furniture company should produce the new furniture. he receives information from a company that customizes elegant furniture, and he wants to analyze the company's production process in order to calculate some problems about cost and availability. read the following scenario, and assist poly and digit as they the servant with his calculations. the fit for a king furniture company requires 2020 hours of labor to produce a standard table, and a chair requires 1212 hours of labor. the labor available is 565565 hours per week. the company can produce at most 3535 chairs per week.

Walsh company manufactures and sells one product. the following information pertains to each of the company’s first two years of operations: variable costs per unit: manufacturing: direct materials $ 25 direct labor $ 12 variable manufacturing overhead $ 5 variable selling and administrative $ 4 fixed costs per year: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 400,000 fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 60,000 during its first year of operations, walsh produced 50,000 units and sold 40,000 units. during its second year of operations, it produced 40,000 units and sold 50,000 units. the selling price of the company’s product is $83 per unit. required: 1. assume the company uses variable costing: a. compute the unit product cost for year 1 and year 2. b. prepare an income statement for year 1 and year 2. 2. assume the company uses absorption costing: a. compute the unit product cost for year 1 and year 2. b. prepare an income statement for year 1 and year 2. 3. reconcile the difference between variable costing and absorption costing net operating income in year 1.