1. Make or Buy Analysis

2. Make or Buy Decision
Use to decide if an operation should make an item from scratch or buy a ready-made version. Analysis helps to balance how much food a kitchen produces with the quality standards of the operation. Ready-made advantages: Consistency Reduced prep & labor costs Reduced needs of equipment & storage space.
But ready-made products cost more money than items that must be prepared, and such items may also have other drawbacks. Decide what benefits you.

3. Reasons for making Cost concerns
Need of direct control over the product
Quality control concerns
Supplier unreliability
Volume too small to get a supplier attracted
Political and environment reasons
Organizational pride

4. Reasons for Buying Lack of technical experience
Supplier's expertise on the technical areas and the domain
Cost considerations
Need of small volume
Insufficient capacity to produce in-house
Brand preferences
Strategic partnerships

5. Make or Buy? : Tomato Sauce
Newman's Own Marinara Sauce 24-oz jar TOTAL: $2.99 PER 4-OZ SERVING: $0.50 Make your own: TOTAL: $4.06 PER 4-OZ SERVING: $1.02

6. Make or buy? Puff pastry
Pepperidge Farm's Frozen Puff Pastry Sheets from Peapod Online Grocery TOTAL: $4.69 PER OUNCE: $0.27 Prep Time: 30 min. Homemade: 16 oz Package TOTAL: $2.00 PER OUNCE: $0.13

7. Make or buy? Chicken Stock
Swanson's Natural Goodness Chicken Broth TOTAL: $2.99 for 32 oz PER 1 CUP SERVING: $0.75 Homemade: TOTAL: $8.58 for (roughly) 4 qts. PER 1 CUP SERVING: $0.54

8. Make or buy? : Cheesecake
Sara Lee New York Style Cheesecake TOTAL: $8.49 PER SLICE (6): $1.42 Original Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory TOTAL: $23.95 PER SLICE (8): $2.99 Homemade: TOTAL: $13.13 PER SLICE (12): $1.09