York Motor service station is now selling bottles of high-quality windshield washer fluid motorists who are driving luxury cars. It is open 5 days per week, 260 days per year. Sales of the windshield washer fluid average 20 bottles per day. Inventory holding costs are $0.50 per average unit per year. Fixed ordering costs are $15 per order. Purchasing costs are $8 per average unit. Reorder lead time is 10 working days. Backorders are not practical as the motorists will drive away to the next station to buy their windshield washer fluid. local a) Based on this data and assuming that daily demand is constant and uniform over time, calculate the economic order quantity and the reorder point. The manager is concerned about using the EOQ model because the demand is not constant but varies from day to day. From analysis of sample data, it is determined that the demand follows a normal distribution with a mean of 20 per day and a standard deviation of 8.75 bottles per day. b) The service station would like to use a continuous review policy (Fixed-Order Quantity Model with Safety Stock), and the manager wants to use the order quantity you found in part (a) but wants to have a 93.7% service level (or probability of not stocking out). What should be the safety stock and reorder point to achieve the desired service level? c) Calculate the number of inventories turns arising from use of the Fixed-Order Quantity Model with safety stock in part (b).
York Motor service station is now selling bottles of high-quality windshield washer fluid motorists who are driving luxury cars. It is open 5 days per week, 260 days per year. Sales of the windshield washer fluid average 20 bottles per day. Inventory holding costs are $0.50 per average unit per year. Fixed ordering costs are $15 per order. Purchasing costs are $8 per average unit. Reorder lead time is 10 working days. Backorders are not practical as the motorists will drive away to the next station to buy their windshield washer fluid. local a) Based on this data and assuming that daily demand is constant and uniform over time, calculate the economic order quantity and the reorder point. The manager is concerned about using the EOQ model because the demand is not constant but varies from day to day. From analysis of sample data, it is determined that the demand follows a normal distribution with a mean of 20 per day and a standard deviation of 8.75 bottles per day. b) The service station would like to use a continuous review policy (Fixed-Order Quantity Model with Safety Stock), and the manager wants to use the order quantity you found in part (a) but wants to have a 93.7% service level (or probability of not stocking out). What should be the safety stock and reorder point to achieve the desired service level? c) Calculate the number of inventories turns arising from use of the Fixed-Order Quantity Model with safety stock in part (b).
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