Question

It is the 1st of the month and there are 5,000 units of product available at the warehouse. An additional 6,000 units will arrive from the supplier on the 8th. An analyst needs to make an allocation recommendation to support customer orders of the product.

Customer	Customer size as & of Company Sales	Order Size (Units)	Requested Ship Window for Order
A	30%	4,500	3rd-10th
B	7%	2,500	1st- 6th
C	1%	700	1st - 7th

Note: Shipments take 1-2 days.

What should the analyst recommend?

A. Fill Customer C’s order first and then fill the other two orders after the additional units arrive

B. Hold all orders until the additional units arrive and then fill all three orders at the same time

C. Fill Customer A’s order first and then fill the order two orders after the additional units arrive

D. Fill Customer B’s and C’s orders first and then fill Customer A’s order after the additional unit arrives.

Answer 1

D. Fill Customer B’s and C’s orders first and then fill Customer A’s order after the additional unit arrives

As the ship window for A is 3rd to 10th, hence we can wait till the additional.iniys arrive in this context accordingly and for B anr C it can be fulfilled with the current available inventory.