Over the past six months, Wholesale Foods of Fresno has experienced a standard deviation of demand of 600 units. Standard deviation of its orders during that period was 800 units. (a)  What is the bullwhip measure for Wholesale Foods of Fresno? (b)  If Wholesale Foods of Fresno had made a perfect forecast of demand over the past 6 months and had decided to order 1/6 of that demand each month, what would its bullwhip measure have been?

Nowlin Pipe & Steel has projected sales of 19,600 pipes this year, an ordering cost of $5 per order, and carrying costs of $1.60 per pipe. a. What is the economic ordering quantity? Economic ordering quantity b. How many orders will be placed during the year? Number of orders orders c. What will the average inventory be? Average inventory units units

A store sells a product that has the annual demand of 16,156 units. It purchases the product from supplier A for $74.4 per unit. The unit inventory carrying cost per year is 14 percent of the unit purchase cost. The cost to place and process an order from the supplier is $107 per order. Supplier A has a delivery lead time of 7 days. The store operates 300 days a year. Assume EOQ model is appropriate. What is the optimal total annual inventory and purchase cost for the store? Use at least 4 decimal places.

Weekly customer demand for the ice cream can be seen in the table below. Week Demand (gallons) 1 280 2 295 3 315 4 300 5 340 6 335 7 350 Compute a three-week moving average demand and a four-week moving average demand for weeks 5, 6, and 7. Compute the MAD for both forecasting methods. Which model is more accurate? Forecast week8 with the more accurate method

Streeter Company produces plastic microwave turntables. Sales for the next year are expected to be 65,000 units in the first quarter, 72,000 units in the second quarter, 84,000 units in the third quarter, and 66,000 units in the fourth quarter. Streeter maintains a finished goods inventory at the end of each quarter equal to one half of the units expected to be sold in the next quarter. How many units should Streeter produce in the second quarter? Select one: a. 78,000 units b. 84,000 units c. 72,000 units d. 75,000 units

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Cherboneau Novelties produces drink coasters (among many other products). During the current year (year 0), the company sold 521,000 units (packages of 6 coasters). In the coming year (year 1), the company expects to sell 542,000 units, and, in year 2, it expects to sell 636,000 units. The target ending finished goods inventory for each month is equal to the next month's sales. Howeve because of production issues, the ending inventory in the current year is expected to be only 12,500 units. Each unit requires 0.5 pound of cork. At the end of the current year, management expects to have 19,000 pounds of cork in inventory Management has set a target to have cork on hand equal to one half of next month's sales requirements. Sales and production take place evenly throughout the year. Required: a. Compute the total targeted production of the finished coaster for the coming year. b. Compute the required amount of cork to be purchased for the coming year. a. Total targeted production in units…

Phillips Corporation is a major manufacturer of food processors. It purchases motors from Viking Corporation. Annual demand is 52,000 motors per year or 1,000 motors per week. The ordering cost is $360 per order. The annual carrying cost is $6.50 per motor. It currently takes 2 weeks to supply an order to the assembly plant. Q. Now assume that demand can vary during the 2-week purchase-order lead time. The following table shows the probability distribution of various demand levels:                 Total Demand for Motors for 2 Weeks             Probability of Demand (sums to 1)                                         1,600                                                      0.05                                         1,800                                                      0.20                                          2,000                                                      0.50                                           2,200…

Cherboneau Novelties produces drink coasters (among many other products). During the current year (year 0), the company sold 525,000 units (packages of 6 coasters). In the coming year (year 1), the company expects to sell 550,000 units, and, in year 2, it expects to sell 684,000 units. The target ending finished goods inventory for each month is equal to the next month's sales. However, because of production issues, the ending inventory in the current year (year 0) is expected to be only 14,500 units. Each unit requires 0.5 pound of cork. At the end of the current year (year 0), management expects to have 20,000 pounds of cork in inventory. Management has set a target to have cork on hand equal to one half of next month’s sales requirements during the coming year (year 1). Sales and production take place evenly throughout the year. Required: Compute the total targeted production of the finished coaster for the coming year. Compute the required amount of cork to be purchased for…

A. Genesis Company is a wholesaler. It purchases 60,000 units of Product X per month for sale to retailers. The cost of placing an order is P100. The cost of holding one unit of inventory for one year is P4. Required: 1. Compute the economic order quantity. 2. How many orders would be placed under the EOQ policy? 3. Compute the annual ordering cost for the EOQ. 4. Compute the annual carrying cost for the EOQ. 5. Compute the total inventory-related cost at the EOQ. 6. Previously, the company had been purchasing 5,000 units of product X per order: What is the ordering cost per year under the previous policy? ii. The annual carrying cost? iii. How much money does the company save over the policy of purchasing 5,000 units per order using the EOQ policy? i. B. Kings Company presents the following information: 1. Annual credit sales: P 25,200,000 2. Collection period: 3 months 3. Rate of return: 12% Kings company considers changing its credit term from n/30 to 3/10, 1/30. The following are…