ACME Company is a big supplier that wants to make it difficult for new suppliers to take sales away from its important customer BAKER. Currently ACME sells BAKER 10,000 units yearly at a cost of $75.75 per unit. And BAKER is placing orders of EOQ. ACME wants BAKER to increase the size of its next order to 3900 units by offering a price discount. Ordering costs are $320 per order and holding cost is 20% of item value. What is the smallest discount (new discount price), that ACME needs to offer BAKER to make it economical to purchase 3900 units next time?
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- B). As an inventory manager, you must decide on the order quantity for an item. Its annual demand is 679 units. Ordering costs are $7 each time an order is placed, and the holding cost is 10% of the unit cost. Your supplier provided the following price schedule. Quantity Price per Unit 1 - 100 $5.65 101 - 350 $4.95 351 or more $4.55 What ordering-quantity policy do you recommend?ACME Company is a big supplier that wants to make it difficult for new suppliers to take sales away from its important customer BAKER. Currently ACME sells BAKER 10,000 units yearly at a cost of $75.75 per unit. And BAKER is placing orders of EOQ. ACME wants BAKER to increase the size of its next order to 3500 units by offering a price discount. Ordering costs are $320 per order and holding cost is 20% of item value. What is the smallest discount (new discount price), that ACME needs to offer BAKER to make it economical to purchase 3500 units next time? O 68.13 O 66.65 O 70.35 74.05 O 71.83 0 0 0PHL Manufacturing assembles security monitors. It purchases 900 black-and-white cathode ray tubes per month at $80 each. Ordering costs are $30, and annual carrying costs are 25 percent of the purchase price. - a) Determine the optimal quantity (4 points) - b) Find the total annual cost of ordering and carrying the inventory (2 points) - c) If the supplier offer a price of $79 per tube for ordering 1200 tubes in a lot, would you evaluate and advise PHL to take advantage of the offer?
- X Ltd buys & uses a component for production at 10/piece Annual requirement is 2000 pieces. Carrying cost of inventary is 10% per annum & ordering cost is 40/order. The purchase manager proposes that a single order to be placed for the entire annual requirement. If X Ltd order 2000 piece at a time we get a 3% discount. Evaluate this proposal & make your recommendationA material manager adopts the policy to place an order for a minimum quantity of 500 of a particular item in order to avail a discount of 10 percent. It was found from the company records that for last year 8 orders were placed each of size 200 Nos, ordering cost is ksh 500 per order. Inventory carrying charges at 40 per cent cost unit is ksh 400. (a) Show whether the purchase manager is justified in his decision (b) What is the effect of this decision on the companyYour widget factory requires GWium for polishing. GWium is expensive but worth it and a little goes a long way. Each widget requires 0.1 ounces of GWium to produce. Your supply contract enables you to buy 10,000 ounces of GWium per day for $30/ounce. This is a good deal; the market price is $40/ounce. Total cost of other materials and labor (excluding GWium) is $2.25/widget. You sell to a wholesaler, who buys all widgets you produce at a non-negotiable price of $6.25/widget. Which of the following are true. A. Selling the widgets is a much better course of action than selling the GWium B. Selling the GWium on the open market is a much better course of action than making the widgets O C. You could produce 100,000 widgets per day D. Both A and B E. Both B and C
- The manager of a car wash received a revised price list from the vendor who supplies soap, anda promise of a shorter lead time for deliveries. Formerly the lead time was four days, but now thevendor promises a reduction of 25 percent in that time. Annual usage of soap is 4,500 gallons. Thecar wash is open 360 days a year. Assume that daily usage is normal, and that it has a standarddeviation of 2 gallons per day. The ordering cost is $30 and annual carrying cost is $3 a gallon.The revised price list (cost per gallon) is shown in the following table.Quantity Unit Price1−399 $2.00400−799 1.70800 + 1.62a. What order quantity is optimal?b. What ROP is appropriate if the acceptable risk of a stockout is 1.5 percent?is the percentage of the billed cost given by a vendor when a stipulated quantity is purchased. 1. Quantity Discount 2. Cash Discount 3. Vendor discount 4. List price discounta) What is the economic order quantity? b) Find the annual holding costs.c) Find the annual ordering costs.d) What is the reorder point?
- The manager of a car wash received a revised price list from the vendor who supplies soap, and a promise of a shorter lead time for deliveries. Formerly the lead time was four days, but now the vendor promises a reduction of 25 percent in that time. Annual usage of soap is 4,500 gallons. The car wash is open 360 days a year. Assume that daily usage is normal, and that it has a standard deviation of 2 gallons per day. The ordering cost is $30 and annual carrying cost is $3 a gallon. The revised price list (cost per gallon) is shown in the following table: Quantity 1 - 399 400 799 800 + Unit Price $2.00 1.70 1.62 Click here for the Excel Data File a. What order quantity is optimal? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) Optimal order quantity ROP b. What ROP is appropriate if the acceptable risk of a stockout is 1.5 percent? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.) gallons…A hospital buys disposable surgical packages from Pfisher, Inc. Pfisher’s price schedule is $50.25 perpackage on orders of 1 to 199 packages and $49.00 per package on orders of 200 or more packages.Ordering cost is $64 per order, and annual holding cost is 20 percent of the per-unit purchase price.Annual demand is 490 packages. What is the best purchase quantity?Charlie’s Pizza orders all of it pepperoni, olives, anchovies, and mozzarella cheese to be shipped directly from Italy. An American distributor stops by every seven weeks to take orders. Because the orders are shipped directly from Ital, they take six weeks to arrive. Charlies Pizza uses an average of 250 pounds of pepperoni each week, with a standard deviation of 18 pounds. Charlie prides itself on offering only the best –quality ingredients and a high level of service, so it wants to ensure a 95 percent probability of not stocking out on pepperoni. Assume that the sales representative just walked in the door and there are currently 470 pounds of pepperoni in the walk-in cooler. How many pounds of pepperoni would you order? (Use the excels NORMSINV( ) function to find the critical value for the given a-level, (Round you z-value to 2 decimal places and final answer t