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LF with make or buy

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  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • January 6, 2019 at 11:45 am #500140
    chinny98
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    I would like to ask about limiting factor with make or buy decision question.
    First is to compare variable cost of making per unit and varible cost of buying per unit. Then, we will get the cost saving per unit and divided by the limiting factor usage per unit, followed by do the ranking (priority for internal manufacture) and comes out the optimal production mix. The remaining balances will be bought from sub-contractor.

    How about when we calculate the profit,

    We need to use cost savings per unit X production mix volume= total cost saving and less the fixed cost in order to calculate the profit

    OR

    we need to use:
    own production: (selling price -variable cost of making) X production volume made by own =contribution

    Add:

    buy in units: (selling price- variable cost of buying) X production volume made by sub-contractor
    = contribution

    Then, become total contribution and we less fixed cost= Profit?

    I also gt one doubt about whether selling price – variable cost of buying =contribution or not?

    Thanks

    January 6, 2019 at 12:33 pm #500149
    chinny98
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    Sir, Further one more question about LF with make or buy, profit earned from PRODUCTION PLAN <<< is that means should only include the profit earned from the units produced by the company itself?? because the word production plan sounds like only related to products made by itself and exclude the products buy from sub-contractor??

    January 6, 2019 at 3:24 pm #500187
    John Moffat
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    Why are you repeating questions that you have already asked and that I have already replied to, and why are you repeating them using a different name?

    As I replied before, for your first question – you calculated the contribution on the units made in house (by multiplying the units by the contribution per unit, which is the selling price less the variable costs of manufacturing) and the contribution on the units bought from outside (by multiplying the units by the contribution per unit, which is the selling price less the variable cost of buying from outside). Add the two together and then subtract the fixed costs.

    For your second question, then again as I replied before, it depends on the exact wording of the question, but you would normally be expected to state how many of each product were manufactured internally and how many were bought from outside.

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