Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Exercise 24

The Big Buy Supermarket stocks Munchies Cereal. Demand for Munchies is 4,000 boxes per year (365 days). It costs the store $60 per order of Munchies, and it costs $0.80 per box per year to keep the cereal in stock. Once an order for Munchies is placed, it takes 4 days to receive the order from a food distributor. Determine the following:
a. The optimal order size
b. The minimum total annual inventory cost
c. The reorder point