1) At your grocery store you review inventory of rutabagas every 6 weeks. You sell this for $1.78 per pound. After you place an order for rutabagas they arrive 5 weeks later. You desire to have a service level of 95 percent. You average sales of 40 pounds per week with a standard deviation of 4 pounds per week. You have 56 on hand. How many pounds do you order? 2) At your grocery store you review inventory of carrots every 4 weeks. You sell this for $0.59 per pound of which $0 is profit. After you place an order for carrots they arrive 2 weeks later. You desire to have a service level of 85 percent. You average sales of 98 pounds per week with a standard deviation of 4 pounds per week. You have 149 on hand. How many pounds do you order?
The following questions are based on the Operations Management topic of P-Systems:
1) At your grocery store you review inventory of rutabagas every 6 weeks. You sell this for $1.78 per pound. After you place an order for rutabagas they arrive 5 weeks later. You desire to have a service level of 95 percent. You average sales of 40 pounds per week with a standard deviation of 4 pounds per week. You have 56 on hand.
How many pounds do you order?
2) At your grocery store you review inventory of carrots every 4 weeks. You sell this for $0.59 per pound of which $0 is profit. After you place an order for carrots they arrive 2 weeks later. You desire to have a service level of 85 percent. You average sales of 98 pounds per week with a standard deviation of 4 pounds per week. You have 149 on hand.
How many pounds do you order?
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