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By Jay Heizer Barry Render Operations Management, Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (11th) [Paperback]
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Author: Jay Heizer
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Chapter 12, Problem 12P
Thomas Kratzer is the purchasing manager for the headquarters of a large insurance company chain with a central inventory operation. Thomas’s fastest-moving inventory item has a demand of 6,000 units per year. The cost of each unit is $100, and the inventory carrying cost is $10 per unit per year. The average ordering cost is $30 per order. It takes about 5 days for an order to arrive, and the demand for 1 week is 120 units. (This is a corporate operation, and there are 250 working days per year.)
- a. What is the EOQ?
- b. What is the average inventory if the EOQ is used?
- c. What is the optimal number of orders per year?
- d. What is the optimal number of days in between any two orders?
- e. What is the annual cost of ordering and holding inventory?
- f. What is the total annual inventory cost, including the cost of the 6,000 units?
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