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- Scenario 3 Ben Gibson, the purchasing manager at Coastal Products, was reviewing purchasing expenditures for packaging materials with Jeff Joyner. Ben was particularly disturbed about the amount spent on corrugated boxes purchased from Southeastern Corrugated. Ben said, I dont like the salesman from that company. He comes around here acting like he owns the place. He loves to tell us about his fancy car, house, and vacations. It seems to me he must be making too much money off of us! Jeff responded that he heard Southeastern Corrugated was going to ask for a price increase to cover the rising costs of raw material paper stock. Jeff further stated that Southeastern would probably ask for more than what was justified simply from rising paper stock costs. After the meeting, Ben decided he had heard enough. After all, he prided himself on being a results-oriented manager. There was no way he was going to allow that salesman to keep taking advantage of Coastal Products. Ben called Jeff and told him it was time to rebid the corrugated contract before Southeastern came in with a price increase request. Who did Jeff know that might be interested in the business? Jeff replied he had several companies in mind to include in the bidding process. These companies would surely come in at a lower price, partly because they used lower-grade boxes that would probably work well enough in Coastal Products process. Jeff also explained that these suppliers were not serious contenders for the business. Their purpose was to create competition with the bids. Ben told Jeff to make sure that Southeastern was well aware that these new suppliers were bidding on the contract. He also said to make sure the suppliers knew that price was going to be the determining factor in this quote, because he considered corrugated boxes to be a standard industry item. Is Ben Gibson acting legally? Is he acting ethically? Why or why not?Scenario 3 Ben Gibson, the purchasing manager at Coastal Products, was reviewing purchasing expenditures for packaging materials with Jeff Joyner. Ben was particularly disturbed about the amount spent on corrugated boxes purchased from Southeastern Corrugated. Ben said, I dont like the salesman from that company. He comes around here acting like he owns the place. He loves to tell us about his fancy car, house, and vacations. It seems to me he must be making too much money off of us! Jeff responded that he heard Southeastern Corrugated was going to ask for a price increase to cover the rising costs of raw material paper stock. Jeff further stated that Southeastern would probably ask for more than what was justified simply from rising paper stock costs. After the meeting, Ben decided he had heard enough. After all, he prided himself on being a results-oriented manager. There was no way he was going to allow that salesman to keep taking advantage of Coastal Products. Ben called Jeff and told him it was time to rebid the corrugated contract before Southeastern came in with a price increase request. Who did Jeff know that might be interested in the business? Jeff replied he had several companies in mind to include in the bidding process. These companies would surely come in at a lower price, partly because they used lower-grade boxes that would probably work well enough in Coastal Products process. Jeff also explained that these suppliers were not serious contenders for the business. Their purpose was to create competition with the bids. Ben told Jeff to make sure that Southeastern was well aware that these new suppliers were bidding on the contract. He also said to make sure the suppliers knew that price was going to be the determining factor in this quote, because he considered corrugated boxes to be a standard industry item. As the Marketing Manager for Southeastern Corrugated, what would you do upon receiving the request for quotation from Coastal Products?In the last 12 months the quantities shown inTable 1 of light vehicles of a brand "R" were sold in the national territory.The selling price of each R vehicle is 12590€. The production cost(including raw material cost) of one is 7730€. The company usesown transportation to transport the vehicles worth 420€, andgiven the distance to the factory, takes on average, 8days, with a standard deviation of 2 days. Storage until saleis estimated at 150€/unit.year. The companyfinancial loans at an annual rate of 2.2%. Consider that ayear has 264 working days.a) Determine the economic order quantity.b) Consider that a service level of 85% (Z=1.036) is to be ensured using a continuous reviewinventory management policy of continuous review. Determine:i. The order point.ii. The economic order quantity considering stock-outs. Month Sales Month Sales 1 2235 7 3078 2 3206 8 2366 3 4298 9 1966 4 3309 10 2149 5 3640 11 2387 6 4038 12 2492
- 13.20. Southwood Furniture Company is a U.S.-based furniture manufacturer that offshored all of its actual manufacturing opera- tions to China about a decade ago. It set up a distribution center in Hong Kong from which the company ships its items to the United States on container ships. The company learned early on that it could not rely on local Chinese freight forwarders to arrange for sufficient containers for the company's shipments, so it contracted to purchase containers from a Taiwanese manufacturer and then sell them to shipping companies at the U.S. ports the containers are shipped to. Southwood needs 715 containers each year. It costs $1200 to hold a container at its distribution center, and it costs $6000 to receive an order for the containers. Determine the optimal order size, min- imum total annual inventory cost, number of annual orders, and time between orders.Problem 20-10 (Algo) You are a newsvendor selling San Pedro Times every morning. Before you get to work, you go to the printer and buy the day's paper for $0.45 a copy. You sell a copy of San Pedro Times for $1.40. Daily demand is distributed normally with mean = 340 and standard deviation = 68. At the end of each morning, any leftover copies are worthless and they go to a recycle bin. a. How many copies of San Pedro Times should you buy each morning? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Round your z-value to 2 decimal places and final answer to to 2 decimal places.) 8 Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Optimal order quantity 0.05 b. Based on a, what is the probability that you will run out of stock? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) * Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Probability 3 X %5. An insurer charges a loading of 30% on its policies with limit $500,000, anda loading of 33% on its policies with limit $1,000,000. It purchases stoploss reinsurance of $500,000 over $500,000. The cost of this reinsurance is22% of total premiums. What is the reinsurer’s loading on the reinsurancepolicy?
- Problem 20-10 (Algo) You are a newsvendor selling San Pedro Times every morning. Before you get to work, you go to the printer and buy the day’s paper for $0.50 a copy. You sell a copy of San Pedro Times for $1.25. Daily demand is distributed normally with mean = 335 and standard deviation = 67. At the end of each morning, any leftover copies are worthless and they go to a recycle bin. a. How many copies of San Pedro Times should you buy each morning? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given α-level. Round your z-value to 2 decimal places and final answer to to 2 decimal places.) b. Based on a, what is the probability that you will run out of stock? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)Demand for portable music players for joggers has caused Nancy Industries (Nancy) to grow almost 50 percent over the past year. The number of joggers continues to expand, so Nancy expects demand for music player to also expand, because, as yet, no safety laws have been passed to prevent joggers from wearing them. Demands for the players for last year was as follows : Month Demand (units) Jan 4200 Feb 4300 Mar 4000 Apr 4400 May 5000 Jun 4700 Jul 5300 Aug 4900 Sep 5400 Oct 5700 Nov 6300 Dec 6000 Question : From the choice of simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential smoothing, and linear regression analysis, which forecasting technique would you consider the most accurate to Nancy Industries? Why?Problem 20-10 (Algo) You are a newsvendor selling San Pedro Times every morning. Before you get to work, you go to the printer and buy the day's paper for $0.30 a copy. You sell a copy of San Pedro Times for $1.10. Daily demand is distributed normally with mean = 265 and standard deviation = 53. At the end of each morning, any leftover copies are worthless and they go to a recycle bin. a. How many copies of San Pedro Times should you buy each morning? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Round your z-value to 2 decimal places and final answer to to 2 decimal places.) Optimal order quantity b. Based on a, what is the probability that you will run out of stock? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Probability
- The local supermarket buys lettuce each day to ensure really fresh produce. Each morning, any lettuce that is left from the previous day is sold to a dealer that resells it to farmers who use it to feed their animals. This week, the supermarket can buy fresh lettuce for $8.00 a box. The lettuce is sold for $16.00 a box and the dealer that sells old lettuce is willing to pay $1.80 a box. Past history says that tomorrow's demand for lettuce averages 245 boxes with a standard deviation of 38 boxes. How many boxes of lettuce should the supermarket purchase tomorrow? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Number of boxesThe local supermarket buys lettuce each day to ensure really fresh produce. Each morning, any lettuce that is left from the previous day is sold to a dealer that resells it to farmers who use it to feed their animals. This week, the supermarket can buy fresh lettuce for $1.00 a box. The lettuce is sold for $25.00 a box and the dealer that sells old lettuce is willing to pay $3.00 a box. Past history says that tomorrow's demand for lettuce averages 265 boxes with a standard deviation of 42 boxes. How many boxes of lettuce should the supermarket purchase tomorrow? (Use Excel's NORM.S.INV) function to find the z value. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Number of boxesThe local supermarket buys lettuce each day to ensure really fresh produce. Each morning, any lettuce that is left from the previous day is sold to a dealer that resells it to farmers who use it to feed their animals. This week, the supermarket can buy fresh lettuce for $10.00 a box. The lettuce is sold for $21.00 a box and the dealer that sells old lettuce is willing to pay $2.00 a box. Past history says that tomorrow's demand for lettuce averages 262 boxes with a standard deviation of 43 boxes. How many boxes of lettuce should the supermarket purchase tomorrow? Note: Use Excel's NORM.S.INV() function to find the z value. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. Number of boxes