OPM 352 Homework8inventoryaggregation
OPM 352 Homework8inventoryaggregation
A mail-order firm has four regional warehouses. Demand at each warehouse is normally
distributed with a mean of 10,000 per week and a standard deviation of 2,000. Annual holding
cost is 25%, and each unit of product costs the company $10. Each order incurs and ordering
cost of $1,000 and lead time is 1 week. The company wants the probability of stocking out in a
flow to be no more than 5%. Assume 50 working weeks in a year.
a) Assuming that each warehouse operates independently, what should be the ordering
policy at each warehouse?
a. How much should be ordered?
b. What should be the ROP?
i. LTD and Safety Stock
c. What is the annual ordering costs?
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d. What is the annual holding costs (include the safety stock)?
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e. On average, how long does a unit of product spend in the warehouse?
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b) Assume that all of the warehouses are centralized into a single facility, what should the
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ordering policy be for the centralized warehouse?
a. How much should be ordered?
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14FA OPM 352 HW #8 10 pts
Homework 8
R(weekly) 10000
R(annual) 500000
STDEV 2000
h+r 0.25
C 10
S 1000
LT 1
SL 0.95
H 2.5
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a. EOQ 20000
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b. ROP 13290
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LTD 10000
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STD LTD 2000
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Safety stock 3290
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c. ordering cost $ 25,000.00
d. Holding Cost $ 33,224.27
e. avg time in inventory 1.32897073 weeks
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B.
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a. EOQ 40000
b. ROP 46579
LTD 40000
STD LTD 2000
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