Victory Victory Is A Retailer Specialising In Vitamin Supplements And Health Foods Claimed To Enhance Performance One 1 (61.96 KiB) Viewed 12 times
Victory Victory Is A Retailer Specialising In Vitamin Supplements And Health Foods Claimed To Enhance Performance One 2 (40.63 KiB) Viewed 12 times
Victory Victory is a retailer, specialising in vitamin supplements and health foods claimed to enhance performance. One of the products purchased by Victory for resale is a performance enhancing vitamin drink called 'Buzz'. Victory sells a fixed quantity of 200 bottles of Buzz per week. The estimated storage costs for a bottle of Buzz are $2.00 per annum per bottle. Delivery from Victory's existing supplier takes two weeks and the purchase price per bottle delivered is $20. The current supplier charges a fixed $75 order processing charge for each order, regardless of the order size. Victory has recently been approached by another supplier of Buzz with the following offer: The cost to Victory per bottle will be $19 each. There will be a fixed order processing charge of $250 regardless of order size. Delivery time will be one week. 1 2 3 4 Victory estimates that due to packaging differences, the storage cost per bottle will be $1.80 per annum per bottle. Note The economic order quantity Q, which will minimise costs, is: Q= 2COD V Ch Where Co The cost of making one order D = Annual demand Ch The holding cost per unit per annum
Required (a) Assuming Victory continues to purchase from the existing supplier, calculate: Economic order quantity Reorder level Total cost of stocking Buzz for one year to the nearest $ (1) (ii) (iii) (b) (1) (c) Calculate the economic order quantity if Victory changes to the new supplier and determineif it would be financially viable to change to this new supplier. Discuss TWO limitations of the above calculations and briefly describe THREE othernon-financial factors to be taken into account before a final decision is made. Explain what is meant by a Just-in-Time (JIT) system and briefly describe FOUR of its mainfeatures.
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