Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13, Problem 43P
Offwego Airlines has a daily flight from Chicago to Las Vegas. On average, 18 ticket holders cancel their reservations, so the company intentionally overbooks the flight. Cancellations can be described by a
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Next week, Super Discount Airlines has a flight from New York to Los Angeles that will be booked to capacity. The airline knows from history that an average of 28 customers (with a standard deviation of 14) cancel their reservation or do not show for the flight. Revenue from a ticket on the flight is $122. If the flight is overbooked, the airline has a policy of getting the customer on the next available flight and giving the person a free round-trip ticket on a future flight. The cost of this free round-trip ticket averages $228. Super Discount considers the cost of flying the plane from New York to Los Angeles a sunk cost. By how many seats should Super Discount overbook the flight?
Note: Use Excel's NORM.S.INV function to find the z value. Round z value to 2 decimal places. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
Services differ from goods in that
I. A service is a tangible process II. A service is an intangible process III. Services can be stored IV. Services cannot be stored V. Services are perishable and time-dependent
Option IV and V
Option II and IV
Option II, IV, and V
Option I and III
Suppose a Motorboat dealership is dealing in costly motorboats that follow the policy of carrying a few units in stock and ordering for replenishment as soon as a motorboat is sold from the stock. The unit cost of the motorboat is $60,000 and the holding or carrying cost is $5,000 per unit per year. The management of the Motorboat dealership believes that the shortage cost due to waiting for the motorboat is $2,000 per unit short per month. The demand is seen to be Poison distributed with an average rate of 2 units per month and the replenishment lead time can be considered to be exponential with a mean of one month Considering the system as an M/M/s queuing system, find the optimal stock to be carried which can minimize the sum total of carrying and shortage costs.
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Operations Management
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