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- The Main Street Pharmacy fills prescriptions for a popular antibiotic medicine. The daily demand for the anti normally distributed with a mean of 200 pills and a standard deviation of 80 pills. The Vendor that supplies t to the pharmacy calls the pharmacist every 4 weeks to check the inventory of the antibiotic in the store. The receive an order of the antibiotic from the vendor is 4 days. Due to the importance of this drug, the pharmac adopted a 98% service level policy. The Pharmacy and Vendor operate 7 days a week, 52 weeks per year. A) If the pharmacy can accept one stock out of antibiotic every two years, what level of safety stock should the pharmacist maintain?arrow_forwardH & K Electronic Warehouse sells a 12-pack of AAA batteries, and this is a very popular item. Demand for this is normally distributed, with an average of 50 packs per day and a standard deviation of 16. The average delivery time is 5 days, with a standard deviation of 2 days. Delivery time has been found to be normally distributed. A 96% service level is desired. What is the standard deviation of demand during the lead time? How much safety stock should be carried, and what should be the reorder pointarrow_forward12.4 Demand for ice cream at the Ouachita Dairy can be approximated by a normal distribution with a mean of 47 gallons per day and a standard deviation of 8 gallons per day. The new management desires a service level of 95%. Lead time is four days; the dairy is open seven days a week. What reorder point would be consistent with the desired service level?arrow_forward
- How do you do this? Please list step by step instructions.arrow_forwardKVS Pharmacy stocks a popular brand of over the counter flu and cold medicine. The average demand for the medicine is six packages per day, with a standard deviation of 1.2 packages. A vendor for the pharmaceutical company checks KVS’s stock every 60 days. During one visit, the store had eight packages in stock. The lead time to receive an order is five days. Determine the order size for this order period that will enable KVS to maintain a 95% service level.arrow_forwardKabel Market store sells electric cable. The demand for cable is normally distributed. The inventory related information at Kabel Market is as follows: Average Annual Demand = 16,900 meters Standard deviation of weekly demand = 28 meters Cable selling price = AMD 640.00 per meter Ordering cost = AMD 1,250.00 per order Lead time = 5 weeks Annual inventory-holding cost estimate = 2.5% of the cable selling price Required service level = 95% Kabel Market works 52 weeks a year. Note: The approximate z values are: for 0.9 ≈ 1.28, for 0.92 ≈ 1.405, for 0.95 ≈ 1.645, for 0.98 ≈ 2.05. Suppose the bar management practices the fixed-QUANTITY ordering system with the use of the economic order quantity. Answer the following questions: (i) How many meters of cable they order from the supplier each time? (ii) When do they place an order? (iii) What is the safety stock?arrow_forward
- University Drug Pharmaceuticals orders its antibiotics every two weeks (14 days) when a salesperson visits from one of the pharmaceutical companies. Tetracycline is one of its most prescribed antibiotics, with average daily demand of 2,000 capsules. The standard deviation of daily demand was derived from examining prescriptions filled over the past three months and was found to be 800 capsules. It takes f ive days for the order to arrive. University Drug would like to satisfy 99 percent of the prescriptions. The salesperson just arrived, and there are currently 25,000 capsules in stock.How many capsules should be ordered?arrow_forwardPalin's Muffler Shop has one standard muffler that fits a large variety of cars. The shop wishes to establish a periodic review system to manage inventory of this standard muffler. Use the information in the following table to determine the optimal inventory target level (or order-up-to level). Ordering cost Service probability Annual demand 3,750 mufflers $ 60 92 % per order mufflers per working day per muffler % of item value working days Standard deviation of daily demand Item cost $39.00 working days per year Lead time 3 Working days Annual holding cost Review period 31 250 20 a. What is the optimal target level (order-up-to level)? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "z" value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) Optimal target level b. If the service probability requirement is 92 percent, the optimal target level will: O Stay the same Decrease O…arrow_forwardPaulin’s muffler shop has one standard muffler that fits a large variety of cars. The shop wishes to establish a periodic review system to manage inventory of this standard muffler. Use the information table to determine the optimal inventory target level (or order-up to level). Annual demand 3,910 mufflers ordering cost $75 per order S/D of daily demand 6 mufflers/wk. day service probability 87% Item cost $ 27.00 per muffler lead time 2 wk. Days Annual holding cost 36 % of item value wk. Days 230 per year Review period 18 working days What is the optimal target levels (order up to levels) use excels NORMSINVI() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round value 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number If the service probability is 90%, the optimal target level will increase, decrease or…arrow_forward
- Palin’s Muffler Shop has one standard muffler that fits a large variety of cars. The shop wishes to establish a periodic review system to manage inventory of this standard muffler. Use the information in the following table to determine the optimal inventory target level (or order-up-to level). Annual demand 2,750 mufflers Ordering cost $ 35 per order Standard deviation of daily demand 6 mufflers per working day Service probability 76 % Item cost $ 28.00 per muffler Lead time 4 working days Annual holding cost 22 % of item value Working days 275 per year Review period 21 working days a. What is the optimal target level (order-up-to level)? If the service probability requirement is 93 percent, the optimal target level will: Increase Decrease Stay the samearrow_forwardThe Petroco Company uses a highly toxic chemical in one of its manufacturing processes. It must have the product delivered by special cargo trucks designed for safe shipment of chemicals. As such, ordering (and delivery) costs are relatively high, at $2,600 per order. The chemical product is packaged in 1-gallon plastic containers. The cost of holding the chemical in storage is $50 per gallon per year. The annual demand for the chemical, which is constant over time, is 2,000 gallons per year. The lead time from time of order placement until receipt is 10 days. The company operates 310 working days per year. Compute the optimal order quantity, the total minimum inventory cost, and the reorder point.arrow_forwardA company is targeting a cycle service level of 25%. What should their reorder point be if they have an average weekly demand of 100, a weekly demand standard deviation of 20, and a lead time of 5 weeks?arrow_forward
- Purchasing and Supply Chain ManagementOperations ManagementISBN:9781285869681Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. PattersonPublisher:Cengage Learning