The manager at Monson Kitchens, a distributor of kitchen cabinet doors in Dublin, uses a continuous review
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- The manager at Monson Kitchens, a distributor of kitchen cabinet doors in Dublin, uses a continuous review policy to manage inventory. The manager currently orders 11,000 doors when the inventory of doors drops to 7,500. Weekly demand for tires is normally distributed, with a mean of 3,000 and a standard deviation of 550. The replenishment lead time for tires is two weeks. Each door costs Monson’s Kitchens €14, and the company sells each door for €32. Monson Kitchens incurs an annual holding cost of 22 percent.
- How much safety inventory does Monson Kitchen currently carry?
- At what cost of understocking is the manager’s current inventory policy justified?
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