Concept explainers
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Interpretation: The number of baseballs per order by the Bucks Grande baseball team as cost per order is $100, holding cost of 38% of purchase price and following information
Concept Introduction: Ordering Optimum size (creating no additional or shortage of materials in stock) at minimum ordering cost is EOQ
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Interpretation: The total annual cost for best ordering quantity is to be calculated.
Concept Introduction: Aggregation of annual holding & ordering &material costs gets total cost
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Interpretation: Identifying affect on order quantity when there is additional purchase of 15000 base ball and reduction of price to $6.25 each
Concept Introduction: Aggregation of annual holding & ordering &material costs gets total cost.
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- Huehn-Brown Products in St. Petersburg offers thefollowing discount schedule for its 4-by-8-foot sheets of quality plywood. Home Sweet Home Company orders plywood from HuehnBrown.Home Sweet Home has an ordering cost of$45. Carryingcost is 20%, and annual demand is 100 sheets. What do you recommend?arrow_forwardPlease refer to the question below.arrow_forwardPeach Company uses 800 units of a product per year on a continuous basis. The product has a Fixed Cost of $50 per order, and its carrying cost is $2 per unit per year. It takes 5 days to receive a shipment after an order is placed, and the firm wishes to hold 10 days’ usage in inventory as a safety stock. Show Computations and Explanations. The EOQ = 200 Units The Average Level of Inventory = 121.92 Units The Reorder Point = 33 Units A. Indicate if the Variable Change if the firm does not hold the Safety Stock. Variable: Reorder Point (Format: Change or Do not Change) B. Indicate if the Variable Change if the firm does not hold the Safety Stock. Variable: Economic Order Quantity (Format: Change or Do not Change)arrow_forward
- Pet Empire operates 52 weeks per year, 6 days per week, and uses a continuous review inventory system. It purchases kitty litter for $11.70 per bag. The following information is available about these bags. Demand is 90 bags per week, order cost is $54 per order, annual holding cost is 27% of the cost, service level is 80%, lead time is 3 weeks (18 working days), and standard deviation of weekly demand is 15 bags. Current on hand inventory is 320 bags with no open orders or back orders. Require to calculate Economic Order Quantity (EOQ). What would be the average time between orders (in weeks)? Calculate reorder point (R). The store currently uses a lot size of 500 bags (i.e., Q = 500). Calculate the annual holding cost of this policy and also annual ordering cost. Without calculating the EOQ, how can you conclude from these two calculation that the current lot size is too large? What would be the annual cost saved by shifting from the 500-bag lot size to the EOQ? Consider again the…arrow_forwardFlyUs Airlines is unhappy with the number of empty seats on its New York to Philadelphia flight. To remedy the problem, the airline is offering a special discounted rate of $89 instead of the normal $169, but only for 7-day advance purchases and for a limited number of seats per flight. The aircraft flown from NY to Philly holds 100 passengers. Last month’s distribution of full-fare passengers is shown below. How many seats should FlyUs reserve for full-fare passengers? Full-Fare Frequency 50 15 55 20 60 35 65 20 70 10arrow_forwardSam's Pet Hotel operates 5050 weeks per year, 66 days per week, and uses a continuous review inventory system. It purchases kitty litter for $13.0013.00 per bag. The following information is available about these bags: follows≻Demandequals=8080 bags/week follows≻Order costequals=$55.0055.00/order follows≻Annual holding costequals=2020 percent of cost follows≻Desired cycle-service levelequals=8080 percent follows≻Lead timeequals=55 weeks (3030 working days) follows≻Standard deviation of weekly demandequals=1515 bags follows≻Current on-hand inventory is 320320 bags, with no open orders or backorders. Part 2 a. Suppose that the weekly demand forecast of 8080 bags is incorrect and actual demand averages only 5555 bags per week. How much higher will total costs be, owing to the distorted EOQ caused by this forecast error?arrow_forward
- Purchasing and Supply Chain ManagementOperations ManagementISBN:9781285869681Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. PattersonPublisher:Cengage Learning