Pizza Hut purchases its pizza delivery boxes from a printing supplier. Pizza Hut delivers on average 400 pizzas each month (assume deterministic demand). Boxes cost 39 cents each, and each order costs $16.80 to process. Because of limited storage space, the manager wants to charge inventory holding at 20 percent of the cost. The lead time is 5 days. Use the EOQ Model Excel template to determine the economic order quantity.

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Pizza Hut purchases its pizza delivery boxes from a printing supplier. Pizza Hut delivers on average 400 pizzas each month (assume deterministic demand). Boxes cost 39 cents each, and each order costs $16.80 to process. Because of limited storage space, the manager wants to charge inventory holding at 20 percent of the cost. The lead time is 5 days.



Use the EOQ Model Excel template to determine the economic order quantity.

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