Question: Question 3 ( 3 0 points ) A DHL e - commerce fulfillment center ( hereafter refers to as FC ) in Ontario, California is

Question 3(30 points) A DHL e-commerce fulfillment center (hereafter refers to as FC) in Ontario, California is supplied by a national distribution center (hereafter refers to as DC) in Memphis, Tennessee. One of the womens running shoes is Saucony Endorphin Elite and Saucony sells this model of shoes exclusively through FC. Here is what we know regarding the Endorphin Elite (hereafter refers to as EE): The sales of EE follow a normal distribution, the average demand is 120 units per day and the standard deviation of demand is 20 units per day. Cost of goods sold at the FC: $100 per unit. Inventory carrying cost percentage: 25% for all inventory (DC, FC, and in-transit) per year. Order cost at the store: $50 per order. Lead time from DC to FC: 2 days and FC requires an in-stock probability of 95% during the lead time. Assuming both FC and DC are operating 365 days per year. If the FC uses re-order point inventory policy and orders by the economic order quantity, what is the average inventory level at FC? Please provide details of your calculations. How much is the average in-transit inventory between the DC and the FC? Please provide details of your calculations, including the results of each step, such as E(Z). If out-of-stock costs FC $10 per unit, what is the expected annual out-of-stock cost? Please provide details of your calculations. If Memphis DC also uses re-order point policy and orders 1,000 units of EE from the factory each time. The lead time is 5 days for DC and the service level required by DC is 90%. How much is the average inventory level at the Memphis DC? If the FC decides to change the inventory policy to order on a weekly basis (order every 7 days on every Monday) while maintaining the same service level of 95%, and if on a particular Monday FC still has 200 units, how many units of EE shoes does FC need to order from DC on that Monday?

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