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Operations Management Principles IP 4 This was an A paper Scheduling Pg.2 Raw Material LRM Raw material is ordered in lots arriving at specific times but, consumed
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This was an A paper
Scheduling Pg.2
Raw Material LRM
Raw material is ordered in lots arriving at specific times but, consumed uniformed uniformly over a period. There are two types of costs involved in the process. One is the ordering cost, which is fixed per order and the other is the inventory holding cost, which depends on the average inventory level. The larger each order quantity, the fewer the number of orders placed in a year and hence, the lower the annual ordering cost. However large order quantities lead to higher levels of inventory and therefore higher annual inventory holding costs. Unfortunately, the ordering cost is incurred by the purchase department and the inventory holding cost by the operations department. The director of purchasing is reducing his department¡¯s cost (by having a large order quantity) while increasing the operation department¡¯s cost. (Stevenson, 2007)
Both departments should be working towards minimizing the total cost to the company. Hence, the economic order quantity (EOQ) should be determined such that the total cost to the company is minimized. The EOQ method does exactly this and hence, is ideal for calculating the optimum order quantity. It is simple to use and the assumptions it is based on are valid in this case. It is applied to a single product...
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