Asoft drink company has three bottling plants throughout the country. bottling occurs at the regional level because of the high cost of transporting bottled soft drinks. the parent company supplies each plant with the syrup. the bottling plants combine the syrup with carbonated soda to make and bottle the soft drinks. the bottled soft drinks are then sent to regional grocery stores. the bottling plants are treated as costs centers. the managers of the bottling plants are evaluated based on minimizing the cost per soft drink bottled and delivered. each bottling plant uses the same equipment, but some produce more bottles of soft drinks because of different demand. the costs and output for each bottling plant are: a b c units produced 10,000,000 20,000,000 30,000,000 variable costs $ 200,000 $ 450,000 $ 650,000 fixed costs $ 100,000 $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 required: a. estimate the average cost per unit for each plant. b. why would the manager of plant a be unhappy with using the average cost as the performance measure? c. what is an alternative performance measure that would make the manager of plant a happier? d. under what circumstances might the average cost be a better performance measure?

The monthly sales for yazici​ batteries, inc., were as​ follows: month jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sept oct nov dec sales 19 20 17 12 11 18 16 17 19 22 21 24 this exercise contains only parts b and c. ​b) the forecast for the next month​ (jan) using the naive method​ = nothing sales ​(round your response to a whole​ number). the forecast for the next period​ (jan) using a​ 3-month moving average approach​ = nothing sales ​(round your response to two decimal​ places). the forecast for the next period​ (jan) using a​ 6-month weighted average with weights of 0.10​, 0.10​, 0.10​, 0.20​, 0.20​, and 0.30​, where the heaviest weights are applied to the most recent month​ = nothing sales ​(round your response to one decimal​ place). using exponential smoothing with alpha ​= 0.40 and a september forecast of 21.00​, the forecast for the next period​ (jan) = nothing sales ​(round your response to two decimal​ places). using a method of trend​ projection, the forecast for the next month​ (jan) = nothing sales ​(round your response to two decimal​ places). ​c) the method that can be used for making a forecast for the month of march is ▾ a 3-month moving average a 6-month weighted moving average exponential smoothing the naive method a trend projection .

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