Question: PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION answer Q 1 & 2 From Scenario A Zamatia Ltd . is an Italian upscale maker of eyewear. UV Inc., short

PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION answer Q 1&2 From Scenario A
Zamatia Ltd.is an Italian upscale maker of eyewear. UV Inc., short for UmbraVisage, is one of their retailers in the United States. To match UVs stylishassortment, UV only operates small boutique stores located in trendy locations. Weconsider one particular store located in Miami Beach, Florida. Due to longreplenishment lead time, UV receives only one delivery of Zamatia glasses beforeeach season.
Consider Zamatias entry-level sunglasses for the coming season, the Bassano. UVpurchases each one of those pairs of sunglasses from Zamatia for $75and retailsthem for $115.Zamatias production and shipping costs per pair are $35.At the endof the season, UV generally needs to offer deep discounts to sell remaininginventory; UV estimates that it will only be able to fetch $25per leftover Bassano atthe Miami Beach store. UVs Miami Beach store believes this seasons demand forthe Bassano can be represented by a normal distribution with a mean of 250and astandard deviation of 125.
Scenario A: Without Any Contracts In this scenario, the supplier produces the products after it receives the order from the buyer(MTO).The supplier bears no risk. The buyer bears all the risk (too much or too little issue).The buyer makes ordering decision. Sunglass exampleThe retailer UV earns 115-75=$40for each unit sold, and loses 75-25=$50for eachunit unsold.The supplier Zamatia earns 75-35=$40for each unit sold to UV.
Applying Newsvendor model No contract
According to the information presented in Lecture 1, apply the newsvendor model to scenario A:Without any contracts. Answer the following three questions and round your answer to the nearest integer.
Hint: simply apply the newsvendor model for the buyer (the retailer) and you can figure out the optimal order quantity and hence the expected profit for the buyer. Given the order quantity determined by the buyer, you can then calculate the profit for the supplier. Note the supplier makes $40 profit for each unit sold to the buyer.
QUESTION 1
Given the above information, apply newsvendor model to determine the optimal orderquantity and calculate UVs expected profit.
Report the expected profit for the buyer.
QUESTION 2
According to the order quantity determined above, calculate the profit of Zamatia.
Report the expected profit for the supplier.
QUESTION 3
Report the expected profit for the entire supply chain (buyer + supplier).

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