Q16-Q22 are based on the following problem.
Greener Inc is a retailer of tea bags and its manager is doing inventory management for its most popular Jasmine Green Tea (JGT). Demand for the JGT is 8000 boxes per month. Each box costs the retailer $8. Ordering costs are $60, and the annual carrying costs are 20 percent of the purchase price. Assume the lead time is zero, and there are 300 days in a year during which the retailer is operating.
What is the EOQ quantity?
What is the average inventory level of the tea boxes at Greener Inc?
How many orders will be placed per year?
How often will an order be placed (length of order cycle)?'
How much does the company spend annually on ordering costs (Hint: You can obtain this result using your result for Q16)?'
If the manager mistakenly estimated the holding cost to be 10 percent of the purchase price, by what percentage will the EOQ quantity be off (meaning deviating from the EOQ quantity you obtained from Q16)?
If the manager mistakenly estimated the holding cost to be 10 percent of the purchase price, by what percentage will the total costs (using the correct unit holding cost) be off?
