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Assignment II – Blue Ridge Manufacturing
INTRODUCTION:
Blue Ridge Manufacturing produces and sells sport towels in the USA market.
The firm knits all the towels it sells and tracks costs for towel production separately
from the cost to customize the towels. Seventy-five percent of its orders include logo
design, while the balance are print only and require the payment of a licensee fee for
the logo used.
Towels are made in four different sizes: Regular, hand, mid-range and hand.
The normal production cycle for an order of white towels is three days. If a customer
wants a colored towel, the basic white towel made by Blue Ridge is sent to a dyeing
firm for 3 days more. The company sells its products to 986 different customers,
which are divided into 3 types of groups: Large (8), medium (154), and small (824).
They use different approaches to serve different customers: Large Customers,
primarily national chains, are supported by a small in-house salespeople; Medium
Customers, which are small chains, large single store, licensing, sport teams, are
supported by independent representatives (on commissions); and Small Customers,
primarily single stores, attracted by Advertisements in magazines and newspapers,
who call or mail in their orders. Blue Ridge does not give discounts and ships all
orders FOB point of origin.
GENERAL ASSUMPTION:
1. We do not take into consideration the value of 85 units for other process as
stated in the table 2 since there is no sufficient information about the
proportion to separate it into 3 different customer sizes.
2. The same case is happened as well for table 3 where is stated the dollar value
of $17,000 for other factory overhead but there is no real relationship with
each customer size.
3. According to the information given in page 2, we only allocated the cost of
commission and licensees into the medium-sized customers (directly), while
the cost to make sale calls is allocated to large-sized customers....