The Crandall store begins each week with 260 phasers in stock. This stock is depleted each week and reordered. The carrying cost per phaser is $27 per year and the fixed order cost is $54. What is the current total carrying cost? (Omit $ sign in your response.) Carrying costs 2$ What is the current restocking cost? (Omit $ sign in your response.) Restocking costs 2$ What is the economic order quantity? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number.) EOQ How many orders per year wilI Crandall place under the new policy? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the answer to the nearest whole number.) Orders per year times Should Crandall increase or decrease its order size? O Increase O Decrease

The Crandall store begins each week with 260 phasers in stock. This stock is depleted each week and reordered. The carrying cost per phaser is $27 per year and the fixed order cost is $54. What is the current total carrying cost? (Omit $ sign in your response.) Carrying costs 2$ What is the current restocking cost? (Omit $ sign in your response.) Restocking costs 2$ What is the economic order quantity? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number.) EOQ How many orders per year wilI Crandall place under the new policy? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the answer to the nearest whole number.) Orders per year times Should Crandall increase or decrease its order size? O Increase O Decrease

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

6th Edition

ISBN:9781285869681

Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

Publisher:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

Chapter16: Lean Supply Chain Management

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 10DQ: The chapter presented various approaches for the control of inventory investment. Discuss three...

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