Resser Corporation manufactures serving trays and utensils for use by airlines for meal service. Several airlines order these products in large quantities. Resser had adopted an activity-based management philosophy. Listed below are the principal activities of the company.
Product inspection
Product packaging
Materials storage Product engineering
Product scheduling
Materials purchasing
Production-machine setup
Building maintenance
New product design
Product marketing
Accounting
Moving work in process
Inventory control
Production-assembly
Production area cleanup
Human resources services
Product rework
Depreciation of building
a. Identify activities that are non value-adding.
b. Analyze each of the non value-adding activities and determine which are necessary. Suggest how each of the activities that you classified as unnecessary could be reduced or eliminated.