Bsop434 Lab 1 Answers
Lab 1: Low Nail Company
|Scenario/Summary |
After making some wise short-term investments at a race track, Chris Low had some additional cash to invest in a business. The most promising opportunity at the time was in building supplies, so Low bought a business that specialized in sales of one size of nail. The annual volume of nails was 2,000 kegs, and they were sold to retail customers in an even flow. Low was uncertain of how many nails to order at any time. Initially, only two costs concerned him: order-processing costs, which were $60 per order without regard to size, and warehousing costs, which were $1 per year per keg space. This meant that Low had to rent a constant amount of warehouse space for the year, and it had to be large enough to accommodate an entire order when it arrived. Low was not worried about maintaining safety stocks, mainly because the outward flow of goods was so even. Low bought his nails on a delivered basis.
|Deliverables |
This week’s lab consists of six questions. Please be certain that you answer all of the questions and address all of the areas outlined in the grading rubric below.
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|Step 1: Initial EOQ | |
Question 1: Determine how many kegs of nails Low should order at one time.
Answer:
EOQ formula is
EOQ = √ 2 (annual usage) (cost of placing an order)/annual carrying cost per item = √ 2 (2000) (60)/2 = √120,000 = 345 kegs per order
|Step 2: Low-Quantity Discount
|Scenario/Summary |
After making some wise short-term investments at a race track, Chris Low had some additional cash to invest in a business. The most promising opportunity at the time was in building supplies, so Low bought a business that specialized in sales of one size of nail. The annual volume of nails was 2,000 kegs, and they were sold to retail customers in an even flow. Low was uncertain of how many nails to order at any time. Initially, only two costs concerned him: order-processing costs, which were $60 per order without regard to size, and warehousing costs, which were $1 per year per keg space. This meant that Low had to rent a constant amount of warehouse space for the year, and it had to be large enough to accommodate an entire order when it arrived. Low was not worried about maintaining safety stocks, mainly because the outward flow of goods was so even. Low bought his nails on a delivered basis.
|Deliverables |
This week’s lab consists of six questions. Please be certain that you answer all of the questions and address all of the areas outlined in the grading rubric below.
|[|L A B S T E P S |[|
|p| |p|
|i| |i|
|c| |c|
|]| |]|
|Step 1: Initial EOQ | |
Question 1: Determine how many kegs of nails Low should order at one time.
Answer:
EOQ formula is
EOQ = √ 2 (annual usage) (cost of placing an order)/annual carrying cost per item = √ 2 (2000) (60)/2 = √120,000 = 345 kegs per order
|Step 2: Low-Quantity Discount