Question: How to solve question 4 : Please show the step and calculation The central warehouse of a large manufacturer of heavy machinery and engines stocks

How to solve question 4: Please show the step and calculation
The central warehouse of a large manufacturer of heavy machinery and engines stocks three different engine oil
products. The central warehouse orders these three products from the company's manufacturing operations
division and stocks them to meet demands of the company's dealers, which serve customer demand for these
engine oil products. The lead time and fixed order costs are about the same for each order, regardless of the
quantity or product type ordered; it is safe to assume that lead time is about one month and fixed order costs
are $7,500 per order.
The following table includes information on various costs and demand for each of the products.
If the central warehouse does not have the item in stock when a dealer puts in an order, the order is recorded
and is delivered to the retailer as soon as the next shipment arrives from the manufacturing division. The
warehouse estimates the stock-out cost to be equal to the same-day shipping costs that they incur as a result of
the stock-out incident (given in the table above).
EOQ and (Q,R) Policy Comparison: Compare the two policies with respect to the expected inventory costs
(compare separately the holding, fixed cost and stockout under each policy), stockout probability (type I
service level) and fill rate (type II service level). Comment on the differences between the two policies.
The management team is now thinking "outside-the-box," and has raised the question of why the
manufacturing division is charging the central warehouse a fixed order cost of $7,500 each time the
warehouse puts in an order. The manufacturing division has indicated that the reason is that each time the
central warehouse puts in an order for the oils, they have to schedule a team to put together the order, and
send out a truck to deliver the order to the central warehouse, which is costly. To discourage very frequent
ordering of the engine oils, they decided to implement the fixed order cost, which they claimed to "work
just fine so far."
The management, however, is still questioning how the $7,500 per order figure was determined, and
arguing that the fixed order is creating "false economics" for this very basic order fulfillment function
between two divisions of the same company. As a compromise, the manufacturing division has agreed to
accommodate monthly orders for each product (i.e., at most 12 orders per year) with the condition that
orders of all products be coordinated so that manufacturing can send orders for all products to the central
warehouse with the same truck. Calculate the order quantity and the reorder level to be used in this case.
Does it make sense for the central warehouse to order less frequently than 12 orders per year? Why? How
does the performance measures you calculated in part (4) change for this new inventory control policy?
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