Product Decisions Under Bottlenecked Operations Youngstown Glass Company manufactures three types of safety plate glass: large, medium, and small. All three products have high demand. Thus, Youngstown...


Product Decisions Under Bottlenecked Operations


Youngstown Glass Company manufactures three types of safety plate glass: large, medium, and small. All three products have high demand. Thus, Youngstown Glass is able to sell all the safety glass it can make. The production process includes an autoclave operation, which is a pressurized heat treatment. The autoclave is a production bottleneck. Total fixed costs are $167,000 for the company as a whole. In addition, the following information is available about the three products:


































































Large

Medium

Small
Unit selling price$381$209$199
Unit variable cost300171175
Unit contribution margin$ 81$ 38$ 24
Autoclave hours per unit642
Total process hours per unit1886
Budgeted units of production2,6002,6002,600


a.Determine the contribution margin by glass type and the total company income from operations for the budgeted units of production.























































Large

Medium

Small

Total
Units producedfill in the blank 1fill in the blank 2fill in the blank 3
Revenues$fill in the blank 4$fill in the blank 5$fill in the blank 6$fill in the blank 7
Less: Variable costsfill in the blank 8fill in the blank 9fill in the blank 10fill in the blank 11
Contribution margin$fill in the blank 12$fill in the blank 13$fill in the blank 14$fill in the blank 15
Less: Fixed costsfill in the blank 16
Income from operations$fill in the blank 17


b.Prepare an analysis showing which product is the most profitable per bottleneck hour. Round the "Unit contribution margin per production bottleneck hour" amounts to the nearest cent.






























Large

Medium

Small
Unit contribution margin$fill in the blank 18$fill in the blank 19$fill in the blank 20
Autoclave hours per unitfill in the blank 21fill in the blank 22fill in the blank 23
Unit contribution margin per production bottleneck hour$fill in the blank 24$fill in the blank 25$fill in the blank 26
Jun 10, 2022
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