A bakery must decide how many graduation cakes to prepare for the upcoming weekend. The demand for

Question:

A bakery must decide how many graduation cakes to prepare for the upcoming weekend. The demand for the cakes can be approximated by a normal distribution with a mean of 8 cakes per day and a standard deviation of 1 cake. The cost to prepare each graduation cake is $35 and can be sold for $63 (in U.S. dollars). Any unsold cakes during the weekend are sold at half the price the following Monday. Typically, half of these cakes get sold at the reduced price, and the other half get donated to a homeless shelter:

1. Determine the service level.

2. What is the optimal stocking level for the service level determined in (a)?

Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...
Fantastic news! We've Found the answer you've been seeking!

Step by Step Answer:

Related Book For  book-img-for-question

Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains

ISBN: 978-1506302935

1st edition

Authors: Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto

Question Posted: