t’s 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                                                 $55 each  Holding cost                                                  15 percent of tire cost per year  Demand                                                         1,180 per year       Ordering cost                                                 $ 36 per order  Standard deviation of daily demand                     7 tires  Delivery lead time                                                8 days    Because customers generally do not wait for tires but go elsewhere, you decide on a service probability of 95 percent. Assume the demand occurs 365 days per year.    Order quantity=  Determine the reorder point =  Use the excels NORMSINV( ) function to find the critical value for the given a-level. Do not round intermediate calculations (Round you z-value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.)

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It’s 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                                                 $55 each 

Holding cost                                                  15 percent of tire cost per year 

Demand                                                         1,180 per year      

Ordering cost                                                 $ 36 per order 

Standard deviation of daily demand                     7 tires 

Delivery lead time                                                8 days   

Because customers generally do not wait for tires but go elsewhere, you decide on a service probability of 95 percent. Assume the demand occurs 365 days per year.   

  1. Order quantity= 

Determine the reorder point = 

Use the excels NORMSINV( ) function to find the critical value for the given a-level. Do not round intermediate calculations (Round you z-value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) 

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