a. Economic order quantity. If required, round your answer to two decimal places. Q =  b. Reorder point. If required, round your answer to the nearest whole number. r = c. Cycle time. If required, round your answer to two decimal places. T = days

A printing company anticipates using 40,000 reams of paper at a uniform rate over the next year. Each time they place an order for X units of reams of paper, it is charged a flat fee of $200. Carrying costs are $4 per unit per year. A. use the formula for Economic Order Quantity to find out how many reams of paper they should purchase in each order. B. how many orders should they place over the year?

A daily newspaper is stocked by a coffee shop so its patrons can purchase and read it while they drink coffee. The newspaper costs $1.17 per unit and sells for $1.75 per unit. If units are unsold at the end of the day, the supplier takes them back at a rebate of $1 per unit. Assume that daily demand is approximately normally distributed with μ = 150 and a = 30. (a) What is your recommended daily order quantity for the coffee shop? (Round your answer to the nearest integer.) (b) What is the probability that the coffee shop will sell all the units it orders? (Round your answer to four decimal places.) (c) In problems such as these, why would the supplier offer a rebate as high as $1? For example, why not offer a nominal rebate? Find the recommended order quantity at 25¢ per unit. (Round your answer to the nearest integer.) What happens to the coffee shop's order quantity as the rebate is reduced? The higher rebate ---Select-- the quantity that the coffee shop should order.

You are in charge of inventory control of a highly successful product retailed by your firm. Weekly demand for this item​ varies, with an average of 350 units and a standard deviation of 15 units. It is purchased from a wholesaler at a cost of ​$25.00 per unit. The supply lead time is 7 weeks. Placing an order costs ​$55.00​, and the inventory carrying rate per year is 15 percent of the​ item's cost. Your firm operates 6 days per​ week, 50 weeks per year. Refer to the standard normal table The table below shows the total area under the normal curve for a point that is Z standard deviations to the right of the mean.   Z 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.0 0.5000 0.5040 0.5080 0.5120 0.5160 0.5199 0.5239 0.5279 0.5319 0.5359 0.1 0.5398 0.5438 0.5478 0.5517 0.5557 0.5596 0.5636 0.5675 0.5714 0.5754 0.2 0.5793 0.5832 0.5871 0.5910 0.5948 0.5987 0.6026 0.6064 0.6103 0.6141…