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Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter2: Introduction To Spreadsheet Modeling

Section: Chapter Questions

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Weiss’s paint store keeps an inventory of white latex paint product in the gallon size. The manager reviews the stock level every 4 months.

Demand is observed to be normally distributed with a monthly mean of 28 gallons and a standard deviation of 8. Re-supply lead time is 2.5 months. The store manager targets a 98 percent in-stock probability during the lead time.

• What is the target inventory position?

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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