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Garrity Industries manufactures snowboards. George Olivier?, the? CEO, is trying

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Question

Garrity Industries

manufactures snowboards.

George Olivier?,

the? CEO, is trying to decide whether to adopt a lean thinking model. He expects that adopting lean production would save

$95,000

in warehousing expenses and

$43,500

in spoilage costs. Adopting lean production will require several? one-time up-front? expenditures:

$12,500

for an employee training? program,

$95,000

to streamline the? plant's production? process, and

$7,750

to identify suppliers that will guarantee zero defects and? on-time delivery.

Requirements

1. What are the total costs of adopting lean? production?

2. What are the total benefits of adopting lean? production?

3. Should

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adopt lean? production? Why or why? not?

Requirement 1. What are the total costs of adopting lean? production?

The total costs of adopting lean production are

?$____

Explanation / Answer

1 Total cost of adopting lean production: Employee training program 12500 Streamlining plant's production process 95000 To guarantee zero defects 7750 Total cost of adopting lean production 115250 2 Total benefits of adopting lean prosuction: Savings in warehousing expense 95000 Savings in spoilage costs 43500 Total benefits of adopting lean prosuction 138500 3 Garrity Industries should adopt lean production since the total benefits exceed the total cost by $23250.