Question

Best Buy Part B) At a Best Buy store, the forecast for the annual demand of a Motorola cell phone is 15600. Demand forecasts are updated weekly and the unit time is one week. Motorola takes 2 weeks to supply an order and the setup cost is $400 per order. The holding cost rate is 10% and one cell phone costs $50. The store manager now finds that the weekly demand is highly random and normally distributed with a mean of 300 and a standard deviation of 200. Best Buy is targeting a service level of 97.73%. (Best Buy Part B) (a) What is the cycle inventory (or half of order quantity)? [Answer format: integer] (b) What is the average inventory (or inventory held on average between orders)? [Answer format: integer] Write your answer(s) as 123, 4567

Answer 1

Economic Order Quantity refers to the number of unit the company should add to the inventory and the order is made to minimize the total inventory cost. It maintain a balance between ordering costs and carrying costs. Reorder point is the level of inventory which the firm holds in stock and when the inventory level reach this point, the firm must reorder the item.

EOQ act as a review inventory system to monitor the inventory level continuously and once the level reaches the reorder point, a fixed quantity of order is placed. Thus EOQ helps in calculating reorder point and optimal reorder quantity to avoid shortage of inventory.