Find the optimal order quantity


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Q: A retail store has an annual demand for 30,000 units of one of its products ordered from a wholesaler at a unit cost of $25. The cost of ordering has been estimated to be $10 per order. The company is fortunate in that if the item is not on hand when demanded the customer will wait until the next shipment. Administrative costs of backordering average $6 per unit per week. In addition to this, the retailer reduces the price of the product by $1 per unit for every week that delivery is delayed in order to keep the customer waiting for the order. Storage costs amount to $0.05 per unit per day. Assume a year has exactly 52 weeks or 364 days.

Find:

the optimal order quantity

the optimal backorder quantity

the maximum number of units that will be in stock the

length of the inventory cycle t

he fraction of time a customer has to wait to have his order filled.

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