Question: Marriel has been having some problems with inventory. She was running out of some items regularity and seems to have too many of other items,

Marriel has been having some problems with inventory. She was running out of some items regularity and seems to have too many of other items, Her first step is to revise how many to order at tone time. The following conditions exist for all of the items:

  1. demand is stable
  2. price is fixed
  3. lead-time is stable
  4. she plans to use both items well into the future.
  5. she can purchase any order quantiy you might suggest

The cost of an order is unknown, but Mariel has suggested that you estimate it by considering that it takes her approximately one hour of time to order, receive and pay for an order. She estimates her time is worth $125 per hour. The inventory carrying cost factor for all items is 15%.

Build a simple EOQ model to answer her qeustion based on the item number. Put the item number as an input and then select the annual volume and cost per unit from the table below using Excel's vlookup function. In doing so, the output of the EOQ model with change with the item number. All you then need to do is set up a that substitutes the various item numbers into the model and returns the name of each item and its EOQ. Demonstrations will be posted on Angel to show how this can be done.

Item Number Item Name Annual Volume Cost per Units
1 Lions in the Limelight 117 $200
2 JoePa Triumph 682 $250
3 JoePa Thoughtful 1000 $50
4 Linebacker U 318 $100
5 The Corner 881 $200
6 Cram Time 945 $150
7 Old Main in Spring 868 $200
8 Old Main in Winter 260 $100
9 PSU Forever 1008 $100
10 National Champs:Volleyball 135 $250
11 Final Four: Womens 843 $250
12 Sweet Sixteen:Mens 28 $150
13 The Pres 202 $50
14 Beaver Canyon 1005 $200
15 Arts Fest 1999 151 $150
16 Lion in the Winter 470 $250
17 Springtime for Lions 984 $250
18 Peachy Paterno 55 $200
19 We are Penn State 332 $150
20 The Phyrst Family 635 $50

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