What is the recommended order quantity? If BS is willing to accept a stock-out roughly twice a year, what is the probability that BS will have a stock-out in any one order-cycle? What reorder point would you recommend? What are the inventery helding and ordering costc?

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BS Shop sells a variety of quality handmade items to tourists. BS will
sell 300 hand-made carved miniature replicas of a Colonial soldier
each year, but the demand pattern during the year is uncertain. The
replicas sell for OMR 20 each, and BS uses a 15% annual inventory
holding cost rate. Ordering costs are OMR5 per order, and demand
during the lead time follows a normal probability distribution with
u= 15 and o= 6.
1.
What is the recommended order quantity?
If BS is willing to accept a stock-out roughly twice a year, what
is the probability that BS will have a stock-out in any one
order-cycle?
3.
2.
What reorder point would you recommend?
What are the inventory holding and ordering costs?
4.
Transcribed Image Text:BS Shop sells a variety of quality handmade items to tourists. BS will sell 300 hand-made carved miniature replicas of a Colonial soldier each year, but the demand pattern during the year is uncertain. The replicas sell for OMR 20 each, and BS uses a 15% annual inventory holding cost rate. Ordering costs are OMR5 per order, and demand during the lead time follows a normal probability distribution with u= 15 and o= 6. 1. What is the recommended order quantity? If BS is willing to accept a stock-out roughly twice a year, what is the probability that BS will have a stock-out in any one order-cycle? 3. 2. What reorder point would you recommend? What are the inventory holding and ordering costs? 4.
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