Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134130422
Author: Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 13P
Annual demand for the notebook binders at Duncan’s Stationery Shop is 10,000 units. Dana Duncan operates her business 300 days per year and finds that deliveries from her supplier generally take 5 working days.
- a. Calculate the reorder point for the notebook binders that she stocks.
- b. Why is this number important to Duncan?
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EOQ, reorder point, and safety stock Alexis Company uses 937units of a product per year on a continuous basis. The product has a fixed cost of $44 per order, and its carrying cost is $4 per unit per year. It takes 5 days to receive a shipment after an order is placed, and the firm wishes to hold 10 days' usage in inventory as a safety stock.
a. Calculate the EOQ.
b. Determine the average level of inventory. (Note: Use a 365-day year to calculate daily usage.)
c. Determine the reorder point.
d. Indicate which of the following variables change if the firm does not hold the safety stock: (1) order cost, (2) carrying cost, (3) total inventory cost, (4) reorder point, (5) economic order quantity.
EOQ, reorder point, and safety stock Alexis Company uses 916 units of a product per year on a continuous basis. The product has a fixed cost of $60 per order, and its carrying cost is $3 per unit per year. It takes 5
days to receive a shipment after an order is placed, and the firm wishes to hold 10 days' usage in inventory as a safety stock.
a. Calculate the EOQ.
b. Determine the average level of inventory. (Note: Use a 365-day year to calculate daily usage.)
c. Determine the reorder point.
d. Indicate which of the following variables change if the firm does not hold the safety stock: (1) order cost, (2) carrying cost, (3) total inventory cost, (4) reorder point, (5) economic order quantity.
a. Alexis' EOQ is
units. (Round to the nearest whole number.)
Green Grass Industries Limited (GGIL) has used a fixed-time period
inventory system that involved taking a complete inventory count of
all items each month. However, increasing labor costs, are forcing
GGIL, to examine alternative ways to reduce the amount of labor
involved in inventory stockrooms, yet without increasing other
costs, such a shortage costs. Table 10 is a random sample of 20
GGIL's items.
Table 10. Annual Usage by Value of a sample of GGIL's Inventory
Item Number Annual Usage ($) 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.
Chapter 12 Solutions
Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition)
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