1. The goal of inventory management is to have the right ______, in the right _______, at the right _______.
A. product, range, season
B. price, place, supplier
C. price, range, season
D. product, place, time
2. A supply chain with a distributor has more product handling than one without a distributor. True or False?
3. Lead time is a way to measure the availability of inventory. True or False?
4. Expected profit is a direct measure of how well a company serves its customers. True or False?
5. Demand is modeled with a normal distribution that has a mean of 300 and a standard deviation of 50. What is the probability that demand is 400 or less?
A. 97.7%
B. 95.4%
C. 47.7%
D. 2.3%
6. Store A purchases cases of fertilizer for its lawn-care business from a supplier who charges Store A $30 per order and $50 per case. Each case consists of five bags of fertilizer. Store A needs 2000 bags of fertilizer a year. Store A’s annual holding costs are 30%. If Store A’s order quantity is 40 cases, what is its average inventory level?
A. 89
B. 45
C. 40
D. 20