The Strawberry Bread Company buys and then sells (as bread) 2.6 million bushels of wheat annually. The wheat must be purchased in multiples of 2,000 bushels. Ordering costs, which include grain elevator removal charges of P3,500, are P5,000 per order. Annual carrying costs are 2 percent of the purchase price of P5 per bushel. The company maintains a safety stock of 200,000 bushels. The delivery time is 6 weeks. REQUIRED: 1. What is the EOQ? 2. At what inventory level should an order be placed to prevent having to draw on the safety stock? 3. What are the total inventory costs, including the costs of carrying the safety stock?

A firm orders on average 400 wheels each month. Demand is normally distributed with standard deviation of the monthly demand being 20 wheels. The ordering cost is $8 per order. The cost to buy one wheel is $4 per wheel. Annual carrying costs are 50% of unit cost. The supplier lead time is 2 operating days. The firm operates 240 days per year, in other word, the firm operates 20 days each month. Each order is received from the supplier in a single delivery. There are no quantity discounts. Write your answer and then Round your answer up to the nearest number for future calculation. (e.g 9.6 => 10). Please clearly write down the formulation and calculation for your answers. Note: Here I make the time measures bolded for you to make you pay the attention to their differences. Please notice the difference in times measure units, so that you do not make mistake by doing calculations with different time measures. You need to convert the data to the same time measures before doing any…

Customers at furniture store demand an average of 6,000 bookcases per year. Each time an order is placed, an ordering cost of $300 is incurred. The annual holding cost for a single desk is 25% of the $200 cost of a bookcase. Assume that the lead time to receive an order is one week. a) Each time an order is placed, how many bookcases should be ordered? b) What is the cycle time, T? c) How many orders should be placed each year? d) Determine the total annual costs of meeting the customers' demands for bookcases.

A Carrefour supermarket in Ajman uses a supplier in Fujairah for a particular brand of bottled water. The annual demand for this product is 42,000 units (bottles of water). This Carrefour purchases bottled water from its supplier at a price of 0.8 Dirhams per bottle. The inventory holding cost per bottle of water per year is 0.4 Dirhams. The ordering cost for this Carrefour is 80 Dirhams per order, and the lead-time is 2 days. The company operates 260 days a year. This Carrefour uses the basic EOQ model to manage its inventories. Note: Show all the steps and details of your calculations to get full mark. Note: For questions 2.A, 2.B, and 2.C only, please use 2 decimal points in your answers This is not the case for question 2.D, as discussed in class (for ROP). Q.2.D. What is the re-order point (ROP) for this Carrefour?

Western Jeans Co. has an annual plant capacity of 2,000,000 units, and current production is 1,920,000 units. Monthly fixed costs are $400,000, and variable costs are $9 per unit. The present selling price is $15 per unit. On July 6 of the current year, the company received an offer from Childs Company for 50,000 units of the product at $13 each. Childs Company will market the units in a foreign country under its own brand name. The additional business is not expected to affect the domestic selling price or quantity of sales of Western Jeans Co. Question Content Area a.  Prepare a differential analysis dated July 6 on whether to reject (Alternative 1) or accept (Alternative 2) the Childs order. If an amount is zero, enter "0". If required, use a minus sign to indicate a loss. Differential AnalysisReject (Alt. 1) or Accept (Alt. 2) OrderJuly 6 Line Item Description Reject Order(Alternative 1) Accept Order(Alternative 2) Differential Effects(Alternative 2) Revenues $Revenues…

Underground Food Store has 4,000 pounds of raw beef nearing its expiration date. Each pound has a cost of $4.50. The beef could be sold “as is” for $3.00 per pound to the dog food processing plant, or roasted and sold in the deli. The cost of roasting the beef will be $2.80 per pound, and each pound could be sold for $6.50.  A) What is the gross profit/loss per pound if the raw beef is sold "as is" to the dog food processing plant?  If it is negative, use a dash - not parentheses ( ). B) What is the gross profit/loss per pound if the raw beef is roasted and sold in the deli?  If it is negative, use a dash - not parentheses ( ).   C) Should the beef be sold "as is" or roasted and sold in the deli?

ABC Corporation resells one type of candle. It has 250 working days. Each day, it sells an average of 500 boxes but may sometimes sell a maximum of 600 boxes. The supplier takes an average of 5 days to deliver the order. During busier times, the supplier may take 7 days.Based on ABC’s records, ordering cost average P400 per order. Storage cost per box average P5 per year. There is also an opportunity cost of 1% per year for every peso invested in inventories. Each box of candles costs P450.If ABC would continue its current inventory management policy, it would keep 10,000 boxes as safety stock and order tendays-worth of inventory.(A) Reorder Point1. What should be the reorder point in boxes?2. How much would the normal lead time usage be?3. How much should ABC keep as safety stock?

Gustavo Fring approached Walt & Jessie Pharmaceutical Co. to buy 50 pounds of product for $50,000 a pound. Regular customers are charged $84,000 for a pound of product. Walt and Jessie Pharmaceutical Co. has the capacity to make 1000 pounds of product per month. The following costs are associated with the company's normal monthly production of the sale of 970 pounds of product: Direct Material per Pound of Product $9,000 Direct Labor per Pound of Product $2,000 Variable MOH per Pound of Product $3,000 Fixed MOH per Pound of Product $3,000 What is the minimum price Walt and Jessie Pharmaceutical Co. would be willing to accept per pound of product for the order?  Round your answer to the nearest dollar. Hint:  You can solve this problem using the formula for minimum transfer price.   Transfer price >= incremental variable costs per unit + (Sacrificed regular contribution margin/ # units transferred)  Minimum price = incremental variable costs per unit + ((# units…