Question: Blue & White Coffee ( B&W ) orders their organic coffee filters from an international supplier, which results in longer lead times to replenish inventories.

Blue & White Coffee (B&W) orders their organic coffee filters from an international supplier, which results in longer lead times to replenish inventories. B&W uses 95 filters a day with a standard deviation in daily demand of 7 per day. Considering how important it is to have these organic coffee filters available when needed, they have set their service level at 99%(z =2.33) in hopes of avoiding stockouts. It takes 14 days to receive a shipment and the standard deviation of the shipping time is 3 days. What is their reorder point?
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1997 filters
1138 filters
810 filters
1236 filters

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