Mr. Sho operates a news-stand and sells newspaper - orders copies of the newspaper from the publisher
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Mr. Sho operates a news-stand and sells newspaper
- orders copies of the newspaper from the publisher at a cost of $4 per copy
- sells at a retailing price of $7
- The demand can be described with a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 12.
Questions:
How many copies should he order every day? (I got the answer of this part which is Critical fractile 0.4286, z=-0.18, Optimal Q*=97.84)
How much should Mr. Sho order if he wants to ensure a minimum service level of 70%?
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Matching Supply with Demand An Introduction to Operations Management
ISBN: 978-0073525204
3rd edition
Authors: Gerard Cachon, Christian Terwiesch
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