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IIzabel6y ago
Hi JOhn, Can you help me with this TPAR question A company producing two products has bottleneck resource machine Z that is operated 10 hours a day. Conversion costs for a day is $4600. Product Q : SP - 18 Material cost - 12 Output per hour 80 Product P : SP - 15 Material cost - 10 Output per hour 90 Now in TPAR calculations , return per factory hour should be throughput / bottleneck hour right so for Product Q : 6 /10 is this right ? But answer key says 6*80 I cant seem to understand what they have done
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor6y ago#1
The return per hour = throughput per unit / bottleneck hours per unit. If they can produce 80 units per hour, then the hours per unit are 1/80. Therefore the TPAR = 6 / (1/80), which is the same as 6 x 80 = $480. (Or, more logically, if the throughput is $6 per unit and they can make 80 units per hour, then the return per hour = 80 units x $6 = $480.
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