Dr. Tim Brueggemann MBA54001OL 8 July 2011 Case: A Make or Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company Situation Baxter Manufacturing Company is trying to decide whether or not to buy a new software program. The problem is they are afraid to buy this new program because of their past experience. Now‚ they are in a dilemma because they know they have learned from the mistakes they made before so they might b successful this time. The decision will be taken after talking to their people. They
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Decide Transcript A Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company Scenario Summary Baxter Manufacturing Company (BMC) is a leader in deep-drawn stampings. It has been in business since 1978 as a privately held company. The process for making these stampings is very involved and complex. BMC developed methods for efficiently producing large volumes of stampings while keeping their quality very high. BMC uses state of the art machines to make the stampings and they make all the tooling necessary
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Abstract Baxter Manufacturing Company (BMC) is a family founded company. Started by Walter R. Baxter in 1978‚ the 140‚000-square foot manufacturing facility is headquartered in the Midwest in the United States. Walter Baxter’s children work for BMC‚ Kyle Baxter is the President and his sister Sue Barkly is Vice President of customer relations. BMC is recognized as a world class supplier of tools‚ dies and deep-drawn stamping; serving customers such as: General Motors‚ Ford‚ Whirlpool‚ and
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Introduction Baxter Manufacturing Company (BMC) is a leader in deep-drawn stampings and it has been in the market for decades. However‚ the recent technological developments in the industry have necessitated the acquisition or in-house development of an information system that enhances the performance of the company. The key management personnel at the company have been provided with the options to buy the software from an external vendor or to develop it within the company. The following paper
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Make or buy decision Definition of ’Make-Or-Buy Decision’ The act of choosing between manufacturing a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier. In a make-or-buy decision‚ the two most important factors to consider are cost and availability of production capacity. An enterprise may decide to purchase the product rather than producing it‚ if is cheaper to buy than make or if it does not have sufficient production capacity to produce it in-house. With the phenomenal surge in global
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Dr. Tim Brueggemann MBA54001OL Date 10/05/2011 Situation Baxter Manufacturing Company (BMC) is a metal stampings company. Its major customers include‚ Ford‚ General Motors‚ Honda of America‚ General Electric and Whirlpool. The company is made up of two divisions it makes brackets and other components that go into the finished product‚ they also make motor casings. BMC employees about 420 non-union employees and has been steadily growing for the last 6 years. They have been approached to
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term decisions --Make or buy decision analysis Introduction A main meaning of management accounting information is considered to support decision making for business organisations‚ for a foremost principle of rational decisions is the maximisation of financial benefits (Drury‚ 2009). This report will discuss the management accounting information and techniques used in short-term decision-making. Make or buy decision will be put forward in this report as one of typical short-term decision-making
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MAKE OR BUY? – THE CHOICES When firms face a “make-or-buy” decision‚ it means that they have to choose whether to insource a particular production process or service or to outsource it to a third party. The word “insourcing” stems from the union of the words “inside resource using” and indicates the “use of internal labor‚ personnel and resources to supply the operational needs of the enterprise” . A firm can decide either to insource –i.e. to produce in-house- a production process or a service
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Outsourcing and make-or-buy decisions. What cost factors should influence the decision on whether to outsource the payroll functions? Horngren‚ Sundem and Stratton (2004)‚ say that "When managers consider the make-or-buy decision for services‚ it is often called outsourcing" [1‚ p255]. Outsourcing "( ) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specialises in that operation" [2]
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MAKE OR BUY Management decision should be based on careful consideration of all the factors‚ including implication as regard to tax liability. Keeping view various tax implications that are relevant while taking some specific management decision under different provision of Income tax Act have dealt with: Make or Buy: One of the vital investment subject to the influence of tax factor is “Make or buy decision”. Most of the companies have to decide sometimes or the other whether they should buy a
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