1. During negotiations with supplier A, she quotes you a great offer to provide at most 280 units at a price of $10 per unit. Explain, using newsvendor analysis and your understanding of the normal cumulative distribution, why you should certainly order all 280 units from your supplier at this price. 2. Supplier B has 350 units available, but can only sell them to you at $20 per unit. If you bought all units from supplier B, determine the optimal quantity to purchase using the inverse of the cumulative normal distribution. 3. Finally, you want to take advantage of both suppliers. You decide to purchase 280 units at a cost of $10 each from Supplier A. You also notice that, even at $20 each from Supplier B, you would like to purchase more than 280 units so you decide to purchase additional units from B at $20 each. How many additional units q' should be purchased from B to optimize total profit? ● Hint 1: Note that the decision to purchase 280 units from supplier A has little impact on the problem; it's like a fixed cost that provides some fixed expected profit. Focus only on the purchase of additional units. ● Hint 2: What is the cost of an excess additional unit, noting the increase in price? What is the lost profit for each additional unit short, again noting the increase in price? ● Hint 3: Define an excess demand random variable: E = = max(0, D-280). Note that P(E 0) = P(D≤ 280), and P(E ≤ x) = P(D≤ 280+x) for x > 0. This relationship could help you understand how to answer. Hint 4: The answer to this problem might surprise you.

Practical Management Science

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Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

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