Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780132921145
Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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6. What is the relationship of the economic order quantity to demand? To the holding cost? To the setup cost?
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A gourmet coffee shop in downtown San Francisco is open 200 days a year and sells an average of 60 pounds of Kona coffee
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ordering (fixed cost $15 per order), beans are always delivered from Hawaii in exactly 4 days. Per-pound annual holding
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The cost of a widget is $5, and the carrying rate is 40%; cost of processing an order is $25, annual demand is for 400 widgets.
and supply and usage patterns are stable. Assuming you ordered at the lot size of 200 units per order (not the EOQ quantity).
What is the annual ordering cost?
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Cannot be determined based on the given information.
Question 41
Which of the following is not an assumption of the economic order quantity model?
Question 28
Firm A purchases cases of fertilizer for its lawn-care business from a supplier who charges $40 per order and $60 per case. Each case consists of four bags of fertilizer. Firm A needs 1800 bags of fertilizer a year. Firm A's annual holding costs are 25%. What is Firm A's economic order quantity?
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Operations Management
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- Question 7arrow_forward8arrow_forwardQuestion 1 (Stock Control) - : Suyuti Auto purchases a component used in the manufacture of automobile generators directly from the supplier. Suyuti's generator production operation, which is operated at a constant rate, will require 1000 components per month throughout the year (12 000 units annually). Assume that the ordering costs are GH¢25 per order, the unit cost is GH¢2.50 per component and annual holding costs are 20 per cent of the value of the inventory. Suyuti has 250 working days per year and a lead time of five days. Answer the following inventory policy questions. a. What is the EOQ for this component? b. What is the reorder point? c. What is the cycle time? d. What are the total annual holding and ordering costs associated with your recommended EOQ?arrow_forward
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