Closter Corporation makes three products that use the current constraint, which is a particular type of machine. Data concerning those products appear below:
- UX HV MG
- Selling price per unit $ 239.38 $ 484.06 $ 115.84
- Variable cost per unit $ 183.22 $ 371.58 $ 92.09
- Time on the constraint (minutes) 3.90 7.60 1.90
Required:
a.Rank the products in order of their current profitability from the most profitable to the least profitable. Use regular numbers for the product rankings, e.g., 1, 2 or 3. DO NOT use first, second, third. (Input all amounts as positive values. Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
- UX HV MG
- Selling price per unit $ $ $
- Variable cost per unit
Contribution margin per unit $ $ $
Time on the constraint (minutes)
Contribution margin per unit of the constrained resource $ $ $
Resulting ranking of products
b.Assume that sufficient constraint time is available to satisfy demand for all but the least profitable product. Up to how much should the company be willing to pay to acquire more of the constrained resource? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Maximum price $