noluing cost is $2.00 per unit per year. housing Manager estimates at the ordening a. Calculate the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), Annual Ordering Cost, Annual Holding Cost and Total Annual Inventory Cost under unfavorable and favorable market conditions. b. 12 BOIN The Purchasing & Warehousing Manager identified two improvement projects in conjunction with her team: Project A: Reduction of ordering cost to $18.00. Project B: Reduction of holding cost to $1.40 per unit per year. Which project would result in greater reduction of the EOQ and Total Annual Inventory Cost? Which of the projects would you recommend and why? Show all your calculations.

noluing cost is $2.00 per unit per year. housing Manager estimates at the ordening a. Calculate the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), Annual Ordering Cost, Annual Holding Cost and Total Annual Inventory Cost under unfavorable and favorable market conditions. b. 12 BOIN The Purchasing & Warehousing Manager identified two improvement projects in conjunction with her team: Project A: Reduction of ordering cost to $18.00. Project B: Reduction of holding cost to $1.40 per unit per year. Which project would result in greater reduction of the EOQ and Total Annual Inventory Cost? Which of the projects would you recommend and why? Show all your calculations.

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

6th Edition

ISBN:9781285869681

Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

Publisher:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

Chapter16: Lean Supply Chain Management

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Problem 10DQ: The chapter presented various approaches for the control of inventory investment. Discuss three...

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The chapter presented various approaches for the control of inventory investment. Discuss three additional approaches not included that might involve supply chain managers.
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1. A local retailer anticipates an annual demand 15000 units of a product. The retailers] allows shortages for that product, and these shortages are backordered at a rate of 4 OMR per unit backordered. The cost of ordering is 200 OMR, whereas, the annual holding cost is 1OMR per unit. The retailer operates 300 days per year. What is the minimum total inventory cost in OMR? Round-up to the nearest integer?? a. 1960 O b. 2191 C. 1789 d. 1898 e. 1550 O f. None is correct
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?
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 recommendation
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The sales of Whole Care mouthwash at Tom's of Maine over the past six months have averaged 2,000 cases per month, which is the current order quantity. Tom's of Maine's cost is $12.00 per case, and ordering cost is $38. The company estimates its cost of capital to be 12 percent. Insurance, taxes, breakage, handling, and pilferage are estimated to be approximately 6 percent of the item cost. Lead time is 3 days, and considering weekends and holidays, Tom's of Maine operates 250 days per year. Based on the above information please answer the following questions a) What is EOQ? b) What is the cost reduction? c) What is the reorder point? d) What is Time between Orders (TBO)?