Danny Steel, Inc., fabricates various products from two basic input, bar stock and sheet stock. Bar stock is used at a steady rate of 1,000 units per year and costs $200 per bar. Sheet stock is used at a rate of 500 units per year and costs $150 per sheet. The company uses a 20 percent annual holding cost rate, and the fixed cost to place an order is $50, of which $10 is the cost of placing the purchase order and $40 is the fixed cost of a truck delivery. The variable (i.e., per unit charge) trucking cost is included in the unit price. The plants runs 365 days per yearr.

Compute the optimal order quantities for bar stock and sheet stock.

B. To help determine how much inventory to keep in stock of each item in the outlet, I would consider two factors. The first one is the certain amount of each item type in the first week - determining the number of each items input in the stock to be the original data to compare. The second is the number of items sold and still on stock. This would help determine invetory to keep in stock.

B. If I was running a store, I would prefer to use the pick up at store buying method. There would be cashier at the register to check the products and bills as well as receive money from the customers. This is the traditional and still always the most common methods. As the fact that people nowadays still like shopping in physical store, this is definitely the most effective method.

C. The inventory control method I would use when operating a store is to adopt modern technology like bar code to control the inventory stock. By using this technology, I would need to consider the bar code for each type and establishing software to automatically input the information about the number of items sold and in stock. With inputting the number of total items at the beginning and giving each item its corresponding bar code, the sales or number of stock would be tracked by the software.

D. An example of two commodities to be displayed together at store is pencil and rubber. Pencil and rubber undoubtedly are complementary products of each other. Complementary products are made to be used together. Each item requires the other for their complete uses. This is also the case of Rubber and Pencil and each item would not be fully used without the presence of the other.

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