SteelCase Furniture Company uses steel at a fairly steady rate of 50 tons per week. Assume there are 50 weeks per year. They purchase the steel from BainBridge Steel Company at a cost of $600 per ton. SteelCase estimates that there is a fixed cost (transportation, order processing, etc.) of $1500 for every order that they place with BainBridge and uses an annual carrying cost rate of 8%. Currently, they receive an order every four weeks. Required:
a. What is the annual cost of their current ordering policy?
b. What is the order quantity that would minimize their annual cost?
c. Estimate the savings that SteelCase could realize by moving to the optimal policy.

Make or buy eastside company incurs a total cost of $120,000 in producing 10,000 units of a component needed in the assembly of its major product. the component can be purchased from an outside supplier for $11 per unit. a related cost study indicates that the total cost of the component includes fixed costs equal to 50% of the variable costs involved. a. should eastside buy the component if it cannot otherwise use the released capacity? present your answer in the form of differential analysis. use negative sign represent a net disadvantage answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers. cost from outside supplier $answer variable costs avoided by purchasing answer net advantage (disadvantage) to purchase alternative $answer b. what would be your answer to requirement (a) if the released capacity could be used in a project that would generate $50,000 of contribution margin? use negative sign represent a net disadvantage answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers.