Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259142208
Author: CACHON, Gérard, Terwiesch, Christian
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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- As the Manager of Branson’s Department Store, you are responsible for ensuring that reorder quantities for the various items have been correctly established. You decide to test one item and choose product Z. A continuous review inventory policy has been used, so you examine this as well as other records and come up with the following data: Cost per unit $35 Holding cost 20 percent of unit cost Average daily demand 10 units Ordering cost $30 per order Standard deviation of daily demand 3 units Delivery lead time 4 days Because customers generally do not wait but go elsewhere, you decide on a service probability of 90 percent. Assume that Branson’s Department Store operates 320 days per year. [What is the annual demand (D)? Determine the optimal order quantity, Q*. Determine the reorder point (R) if demand is constant. Determine the reorder point (R) if demand is varies.arrow_forwardWhich among the following is an advantage of maintaining huge Inventory O a. Independence from the supply chain O b. Non-value added costs O c. Opportunity Cost O d. Management of obsolete itemsarrow_forwardInventory in excess of expected demand to compensate for variability and lead time is_ a. Temporary inventory b. Buffering inventory c. Anticipated stock d. Safety stock inventory e. Seasonal inventoryarrow_forward
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