ABC Inc., purchases Widgets from an overseas supplier under a continuous review system. The average demand for a popular model is 300 units a day with a Lead Time standard deviation of 70 units. It costs $60 to process each order and there is a five-day lead-time. The holding cost for a widget is $0.25 per year and the company policy is to maintain a 98% service level. ABC operates 200 days per year.   What is the additional cost in $ of holding the safety stock necessary to maintain the 98% service level? What service level in % does a reorder point of 1,570 impl

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ABC Inc., purchases Widgets from an overseas supplier under a continuous review system. The average demand for a popular model is 300 units a day with a Lead Time standard deviation of 70 units. It costs $60 to process each order and there is a five-day lead-time. The holding cost for a widget is $0.25 per year and the company policy is to maintain a 98% service level. ABC operates 200 days per year.

 

What is the additional cost in $ of holding the safety stock necessary to maintain the 98% service level?

What service level in % does a reorder point of 1,570 imply?

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