Operations Management, Student Value Edition
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Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 7P
Henry Crouch’s law office has traditionally ordered ink refills 60 units at a time. The firm estimates that carrying cost is 40% of the $10 unit cost and that annual demand is about 240 units per year. The assumptions of the basic EOQ model are thought to apply.
- a. For what value of ordering cost would its action be optimal?
- b. If the true ordering cost turns out to be much greater than your answer to (a), what is the impact on the firm’s ordering policy?
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