The following scenario relates to three requirements.
‘Tread Co manufactures sports shoes and clothing. tis a relatively small company and has a good reputation for producing
igh quality products. In recent months, however, there have been an incceasing numberof customer complaints about
ith Teaad Co's spots shoos.
‘Tread Co is profitable, but is finance director, who joined the company last year, belaves thera ara inefciencies ints
‘operations and consequently isnt as profitable as it could be.
“The finance director bolleves that Tread Co's budgeting system is partly to blame for this. The company currently uses an
but the nance director beleves activily-based budgeting would be more appropriate. He
's analysing the production process for sports shoes to suppot his suggestion, and has asked for your help in connection
with tis.
‘Tread Co produces two ciferent siyles of sports shoe, the Deluxe and the Standard, and ithas contracts to supply these to
several ig tal cans. Much ofthe producion process and produc EE Simian goods
EET 0 0rece roughou the year
‘Operational data for each product is as follows:
Deluxe Standard
Monthly demand (pairs of shoes) 22.500 24,000
Pairs of shoes produced per production machine hour 280 300
Production batch size (pairs of shoes) 300 400
‘Shipment batch size (pars of shoes) 125 150
The produton in or spots shoes hes