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The Union Street Microbrewery makes The Union Forever beer, which it bottles and sells in its adjoining restaurant and by the case. It costs $1,700 to set up, brew, and bottle a batch of the beer. The annual cost to store the beer in inventory is $1.25 per bottle. The annual demand for the beer is 18,000 bottles, and the brewery has the effective capacity to produce 30,000 bottles annually (365 days).
a. What is the optimal order size?
b. What is the minimum total annual inventory cost?
c. If the microbrewery has only enough storage space to hold a maximum of 2,500 bottles of beer in cycle inventory, how will that effect total inventory costs?
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