After taking a production seminar, Al Weiss, the owner of Weiss’s paint storementioned in Problem 14, decides that his stock-out cost of $10 may not be veryaccurate and switches to a service level model. He decides to set his lot size by theEOQ formula and determines his reorder point so that there is no stock-out in90 percent of the order cycles.a. Find the resulting (Q, R) values.b. Suppose that, unfortunately, he really wanted to satisfy 90 percent of hisdemands (that is, achieve a 90 percent fill rate). What fill rate did he actuallyachieve from the policy determined in part (a)?

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After taking a production seminar, Al Weiss, the owner of Weiss’s paint store
mentioned in Problem 14, decides that his stock-out cost of $10 may not be very
accurate and switches to a service level model. He decides to set his lot size by the
EOQ formula and determines his reorder point so that there is no stock-out in
90 percent of the order cycles.
a. Find the resulting (Q, R) values.
b. Suppose that, unfortunately, he really wanted to satisfy 90 percent of his
demands (that is, achieve a 90 percent fill rate). What fill rate did he actually
achieve from the policy determined in part (a)?

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