Macon Bacon (MB) is a distributor of bacon products. The weekly demand for a 15-lb slab of bacon is normally distributed with mean 600 units per week and standard deviation 63 units per week. It takes 9 days to receive an order delivery (assume 7 days per week) and MB reviews its inventory every 4 days. MB would like to maintain a cycle service level of 95%. MB purchases the slabs from a supplier for $65 per unit. Annual holding cost is 25% of the purchase cost per unit.
a) Compute the annual holding cost for carrying the safety stock. Answer: $_____
Macon Bacon (MB) is a distributor of bacon products. The weekly demand for a 15-lb slab...
1 - the annual demand for product 15600 units the weekly demand is 280 units with a standard deviation 90 units the cost to place an order is $31.00 and the time from order to receipt is 4 weeks the annual inventory carrying cost is $0.10 per unit A- what is the EOQ quantity? B- from the information above what is the reorder point maintain a 95% service level? 2 - the weekly demand is 200 units the cost to...
A golf specialty wholesaler operates 350 days per year. Management is trying to determine an inventory policy for its 1-irons. The cost to place orders with the supplier is $25/order; the demand averages 12,000 items per day, with a standard deviation of 3,000 item. The annual inventory holding cost is $2.00 per item. The lead time form the supplier is 5 days, with a standard deviation of 2 days. It is important to maintain a 95 percent cycle-service level to...
Suppose that a distributor would like to design an optimal ordering quantity at an optimal time. Their demand is at a constant rate of 1000 units per week. In addition, any time they place an order, their supplier charges them a fixed fee of $500 and $20 per unit. It also costs them $5 per unit per week to store the product in inventory. Use this information to answer the questions 1-3. 1. What is the approximate amount of products...
Smith's Florist popular flower bouquet has a weekly demand of 40 units. Each bouquet is sold for $100. The ordering cost is $60 per order. The carrying cost is 30% of the selling price per unit per year. The store operates 50 weeks a year. Required: i. Compute the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) ii. What is the total annual carrying cost this year? iii. What is the time between orders (i.e. length of an order cycle) in weeks using EOQ.
4) S uppose that lead-time demand is normally distributed with a mean of 100 units and a standard deviation of 20 units, If the firm wants to maintain 92% service Jevel, what should the reorder point be? 2-1.88 Pop-137.6units 5) We use 1,500 per year of a certain subassembly that has an annual holding cost of $45 placed costs us $150. We operate 300 days per year and have found that an order must be placed with our supplier 6...
A store faces demand for one of its popular products at a constant rate of 2,400 units per year. It costs the store $70 to process an order to replenish stock and $20 per unit per year to carry the item in inventory. A shipment from the supplier is typically received 12 working days after an order is placed. The store buys the product for $90 per unit and sells it for $160 per unit. At the moment the store...
M7_IND5. Peter Sagan is in charge of maintaining hospital supplies at Champs Hospital. During the past year the mean weekly demand for a special type of tubing was 186 packages of this tubing with a standard deviation of 13 packages of tubing. The lead time for receiving this tubing from the supplier is 1.5 weeks. Peter would like to maintain a 95% service level and places an order for 750 packages every time an order is placed. a) How much...
A construction equipment dealer is facing a difficult inventory problem. Low inventory turnover is squeezing profit margins and causing cash-flow problems. One of the top-selling SKUs in the storage is a special small appliance. Sales are 18 units per week, and the supplier charges $60 per unit. The cost of placing an order with the supplier is $45. Annual holding cost is 25 percent of a product’s value, and the shop operates 52 weeks per year. Management chose a 390-unit...
Annual demand for a product is 10,920 units; weekly demand is 210 units with a standard deviation of 40 units. The cost of placing an order is $155, and the time from ordering to receipt is four weeks. The annual inventory carrying cost is $0.70 per unit. a. To provide a 90 percent service probability, what must the reorder point be? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given α-level. Do not round intermediate calculations....
A large distributor has 8 retail outlets. Currently each outlet manages its ordering independently. Demand at each retail outlet averages 2000 per day. Assume there are 250 days per year. Each unit of product costs 200 dollars, and holding cost per unit of product per year is 16% of the product cost. The fixed cost of each order (administrative plus transportation) is 1500 dollars in the decentralized system. The fixed cost of each order in the centralized system is twice...