Chapter 4: 4PE (page 485)
These are the six major components of demand?
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Six components of demand: average demand, a trend, seasonal element, cyclical elements, random variation, and auto-correlation.
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Chapter 4: 4PE (page 485)
These are the six major components of demand?
Six components of demand: average demand, a trend, seasonal element, cyclical elements, random variation, and auto-correlation.
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After graduation, you decide to go into a partnership in an office supply store that has existed for some years. Walking through the store and stockrooms, you find a great discrepancy in service levels. Some spaces and bins for items are empty; others have supplies that are covered with dust and have been there a long time. You decide to take on the project of establishing consistent levels of inventory to meet customer demands. Most of your supplies are purchased from just a few distributors that call on your store once every two weeks. You choose, as your first item for study, computer printer paper. You examine the sales records and purchase orders and find that demand for the past 12 months was 5,000boxes. Using your calculator you sample some days鈥 demands and estimate that the standard deviation of daily demand is 10 boxes. You also search out these figures:
Cost per box of paper: $11.
Desired service probability: 98 percent.
The store is open every day.
Salesperson visits every two weeks.
Delivery time following visit is three days.
Using your procedure, how many boxes of paper would be ordered if, on the day the salesperson calls, 60 boxes are on hand?
From the choice of a simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential smoothing, and linear regression analysis, which forecasting technique would you consider the most accurate? Why?
Distinguish between dependent and independent demand in a McDonald鈥檚 restaurant, in an integrated manufacturer of personal copiers, and a pharmaceutical supply house.
Which of the four costs relevant to aggregate production planning is the most difficult to accurately measure?
Retailers Warehouse (RW) is an independent supplier of household items to department stores. RW attempts to stock enough items for a 98 percent service probability. A stainless steel knife set is one item it stocks. Demand (2,400 sets per year) is relatively stable over the entire year. Whenever a new stock is ordered, a buyer must assure that numbers are correct for stock on hand and then phone in a new order. The total cost involved to place an order is about \(5. RW figures that holding inventory in stock and paying for interest on borrowed capital, insurance, and so on, add up to about \)4 holding cost per unit per year. Analysis of the past data shows that the standard deviation of demand from retailers is about four units per day for a 365-day year. Lead time to get the order in seven days.
a. What is the economic order quantity?
b. What is the reorder point?
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