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Green Grass Industries Limited (GGIL) has used a fixed-time period inventory system that involved taking a complete inventory count of all items each month. However, increasing labor costs, are forcing GGIL, to examine alternative ways to reduce the amount of labor involved in inventory stockrooms, yet without increasing other costs, such a shortage costs. Table 10 is a random sample of 20 GGIL's items. Table 10. Annual Usage by Value of a sample of GGIL's Inventory Item Number Annual Usage ($) Item Number Annual Usage ($) 1 10,600 11 2,750 2 14,000 12 1,400 3 4,000 13 3,200 4 16,000 14 2,500 5 8,100 15 110,000 1,800 16 14,800 7 84,000 17 9,500 8. 890 18 1,700 9 940 19 3,700 10 94,000 20 12,500 a) What would you recommend GGIL to do to cut back its labor cost? (Illustrate using an ABC plan). b) Item 18 is critical to continued operations at GGIL. i. How would you recommend it be classified? ii. Give the reason(s) for your answer.

Problem 20-30 (Algo) It is your responsibility, as the new head of the automotive section of Nichols Department Store, to ensure that reorder quantities for the various items have been correctly established. You decide to test one item and choose Michelin tires, XW size 185 x 14 BSW. A perpetual inventory system has been used, so you examine this, as well as other records, and come up with the following data: Cost per tire Holding cost Demand 50 each 25 percent of tire cost per year 1,100 рer year Ordering cost Standard deviation of daily demand Delivery lead time 32 per order 7 tires 8 days Because customers generally do not wait for tires but go elsewhere, you decide on a service probability of 90 percent. Assume the demand occurs 365 days per year. a. Determine the order quantity. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Order quantity 75 tires b. Determine the reorder point. (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not…