A firm desires to control inventory levels so as to minimize the sum of holding and...
A firm desires to control inventory levels so as to minimize the sum of holding and order costs. It costs the firm $20 to place an order. The firm estimates its inventory carrying costs at $2/unit/year. Weekly demand is 100 units and there are 50 weeks in the work year. The item costs $10 per unit. Leadtime for the product is 5 weeks. 32. What quantity of items should the firm order each time so as to minimize total inventory...
Discussion Question _ Inventory Control Part a The Deli University Gift Shop purchases sweatshirts emblazoned with the school name and logo from a vendor in Spain Town at a cost of $2,000 each. The annual holding cost for a sweatshirt is calculated as 1.5% of the purchase cost. It costs the Gift Shop $500 to place a single order. The Gift Shop manager estimates that 900 sweatshirts will be sold during each month of the upcoming academic year. i) Determine...
"Peterson Enterprises uses a fixed order quantity inventory control system. The firm operates 50 weeks per year and has the following characteristics for an item: Demand = 50,000 units/year, Ordering cost = $35/order, Inventory-carrying or holding cost as a percent of item value = 25%, Item (Unit) cost = $8 calculate the economic order quantity (EOQ) that is the Square Root (2 * Demand * Ordering cost)/Square root (holding cost * unit cost)"
SS LIMITED Inventory Cost Management Annual Holding Cost / unit Total Holding Cost / Buffer Stock Total Holding Cost / Orders Fixed Cost / order Total Ordering Cost / Orders Total Cost Saving by Economic Order Quantity Annual Consumption, units 1,800,000 £1.50 £37.50 Quantity per Order, units 50,000 £42,000.00 £37,500.00 £1,350.00 £80,850.00 Economic Order Quantity, units 9,487 £42,000.00 £7,115.25 £7,115.00 £56,230.25 £24,619.75 Buffer Stock, units 28,000 Weekly Demand, units 36,000 Lead Time, weeks 2...
The H.A.L. Computer Store sells a printer for $230. Demand for this is constant during the year, and monthly demand is forecasted to be 52 units. The holding cost is $22 per unit per year, while the cost of ordering is $45 per order. Currently, the company is ordering 12 times per year (60 units each time). There are 260 working days per year and the lead-time is 7 days.REMEMBER TO EXPLICITLY WRITE THE FORMULAS USED.a.) Given the current policy of ordering 60 units at a time, what is the total of...
You are the operations manager of a firm that uses the continuous review inventory control system. Suppose the firm operates 252 days a year and has the following characteristics for its primary item: Demand = 25,000 units/year Ordering cost = $33/order Holding cost = $4/unit/year Lead time = 4 days Standard deviation in daily demand = 3 units What is the total holding cost per year, including annual holding cost for safety stock (to the nearest whole number)? (Service...
A firm is operating a fixed inventory system. One product has the following characteristics: Order cost $35/order Unit cost $15/unit Holding cost/unit/year 20% of unit cost Annual demand 1800 Lead time 2 weeks Answer the following questions: a. What is the optimal order quantity, EOQ? b. What is the total annual inventory cost? c. If management decides to use order size of 400 rather than the EOQ, what will be the impact on total cost? (Calculate) c. If demand is...
QUESTION 30 The total output from a production system in one day is 500 units and the total labor necessary to produce these 500 units is 250 hours. Using the appropriate productivity measure, which of the following numbers represents the resulting productivity? a. 1.000 b. 1.428 c. 0.700 d. 0.411 e. None of these. QUESTION 31 The basic EOQ model includes a. annual holding and shortage costs. b. annual ordering and holding costs. c. annual stockout and ordering costs. d....
A firm has been ordering a certain item 600 units at a time. The firm estimates that ordering cost is $200/order, and that annual demand is 1800 units per year. The assumptions of the basic EOQ model are thought to apply. For what value of holding cost (H: avg $cost of holding one piece for 1 year) would their ordering policy (600 units per order) be economically optimal (be the EOQ)? EOQ = Sq Root[(2D*S)/H] Where: D...
HELP! PLEASE Petromax Enterprises uses a continuous review inventory control system for one of its SKUs. The following information is available on the item. The firm operates 52 weeks in a year. Demand = 91,000units/year Ordering cost = $32.50 Holding cost = $3.50/unit/year Average lead time = 4 Weeks Standard deviation of weekly demand = 250 units a. The economic order quantity for this item is ____units. (Enter your response rounded to the nearest whole number.) b. If Petromax wants...