Question: Fliboard - Fliboard is a startup company that develops self - balancing scooters ( hoverboards ) and sells online - 5 2 weeks a year

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- Fliboard is a startup company that develops self-balancing scooters (hoverboards) and sells online
-52 weeks a year
- Fliboard currently sells two products, Proboard (P1) and Babyboard (P2)
- Weekly demand (independent)
- Proboard (P1) : 30 units per week with standard deviation of 15 units per week
- Babyboard (P2): 20 units per week with standard deviation of 10 units per week
- Price
- Proboard : \$400
- Babyboard: \$300
- Costs of battery
- Proboard : \(\$ 150\) Samsung 42V Li-ion battery (B1)
- Babyboard: \$100 HoverFixer 36V Li-ion battery (B2)
- Cost of material other than battery
- Proboard :\$150
- Babyboard: \$100 Fliboard
- Fliboard uses continuous review policy
- Lot size is calculated using economic order quantity (EOQ)
- Batteries are supplied independently from each supplier
- Cycle service level (CSL)
- Samsung battery : 0.99
- HoverFixer battery: 0.99
- Replenishment lead time
- Samsung battery : 4 weeks
- HoverFixer battery: 4 weeks
- Fixed order cost
- Samsung battery : \$1,000 per order
- HoverFixer battery: \$1,000 per order
- Inventory holding cost of battery
- Samsung battery : \$60
- HoverFixer battery: \$40 Question 1
- Calculate following values for replenishing battery -(1-1) Lot size (Q)
- For Samsung battery
- For HoverFixer battery
-(1-2) Safety inventory (ss)
- For Samsung battery
- For HoverFixer battery
-(1-3) Annual ordering cost (AOC)
- For Samsung battery
- For HoverFixer battery
-(1-4) Annual holding cost (AHC)
- For Samsung battery
- For HoverFixer battery
-(1-5) Annual material cost including battery (AMC)
- For Proboard
- For Babyboard Question 1
- Calculate total profit of the current operation (two hoverboards)
- Assume annual ordering cost and holding cost of all components except batteries are negligible
- Thus, we only need to consider costs AOC, AHC, and AMC in (1-3),(1-4) and (1-5) for calculating profit
-(1-6) Total profit
- Profit = Revenue - Total Cost
- Where total cost is sum of:
- Annual material cost
- Annual ordering cost
- Annual holding cost

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