In: Operations Management
Cesar Rego Computers, a Mississippi chain of computer hardware and software retail outlets, supplies both educational and commercial customers with memory and storage devices. It currently faces the following ordering decision relating to purchases of very high-density disks:
D = 36,000 disks
S = $25
H = $0.45
Purchase price = $0.85
Discount price = $0.82
Quantity needed to qualify for the discount = 6,000 disks
Should the discount be taken?
3. William Beville’s computer training school, in
Richmond, stocks workbooks wth the following characteristic:
Demand (D) = 19,500 units/year
Ordering cost (S) = $ 25/order
Holding coat (H) = $ 4/unit/year
a) Calculate the EOQ for the workbooks
b) What are the annual holding costs for the
workbooks?
c) What are the annual ordering costs?
(Jay Heizer, Barry Render., Operations management.,
Pearson.,Tenth Edition, page 532, Problems 12.5)
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4. 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 cost of the 6,000 unit?
(Jay Heizer, Barry Render., Operations management.,
Pearson.,Tenth Edition, page 533, Problems 12.12)
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5. Radovilsky Manufacturing Company, in Hayward, California
makes flashing lights for toys. The company operates its production
facility 300 days per year. It has order for about 12,000 flashing
lights per year and has capability of producing 100 per day.
Setting up the light production costs $ 50. The cost of each light
is $ 1. The holding cost is $0.10 per light per year
a) What is the optimal size of production
run?
b) What is the average holding cost per
yea?r
c) What is the average setup cost per year?
d) What is the total cost per year, including the
cost of the light?
(Jay Heizer, Barry Render., Operations management.,
Pearson.,Tenth Edition, page 533, Problems 12.17)
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