Peet's Coffees in Menlo Park, California, sells Melitta Number 101 coffee filters at a fairly steady rate of about 60 boxes of filters monthly. The filters are ordered from a supplier in Trenton, New Jersey. Peet's manager is interested in applying some inventory theory to determine the best replenishment strategy for the filters. Peet's pays $2.80 per box of filters and estimates that fixed costs of employee time for placing and receiving orders amount to about $20. Peet's uses a 22 percent annual interest rate to compute holding costs. b. Suppose that it takes three weeks to receive a shipment. What inventory of filters should be on hand when an order is placed?

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Peet's Coffees in Menlo Park, California, sells Melitta Number 101 coffee filters at a fairly steady rate of about 60 boxes of filters monthly. The filters are ordered from a supplier in Trenton, New Jersey. Peet's manager is interested in applying some inventory theory to determine the best replenishment strategy for the filters. Peet's pays $2.80 per box of filters and estimates that fixed costs of employee time

for placing and receiving orders amount to about $20. Peet's uses a 22 percent annual interest rate to compute holding costs. b. Suppose that it takes three weeks to receive a shipment. What inventory of filters

should be on hand when an order is placed?

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