A step fixed cost - when the vertical axis represents cost incurred.
A company determines its order quantity for a raw material by using the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model.What would be the effects on the EOQ and the total annual holding cost of a decrease in the cost of ordering a batch of raw material?
Data relating to a particular stores item are as follows:
Average daily usage 400 units
Maximum daily usage 520 units
Minimum daily usage 180 units
Lead time for replenishment of inventory 10 to 15 days
Reorder quantity 8,000 units
What is the reorder level (in units) which avoids stockouts (running out of inventory)?
The material stores control account for a company for March looks like this:
MATERIAL STORES CONTROL ACCOUNT
$ $
Balance b/d 12,000 Work in progress 40,000
Suppliers 49,000 Overhead control 12,000
Work in progress 18,000 Balance c/d 27,000
79,000 79,000
Balance b/d 27,000
Which of the following statements are correct?
(i) Issues of direct materials during March were $18,000
(ii) Issues of direct materials during March were $40,000
(iii) Issues of indirect materials during March were $12,000
(iv) Purchases of materials during March were $49,000
A manufacturing company uses 25,000 components at an even rate during a year. Each order placed with the supplier of the components is for 2,000 components, which is the economic order quantity.The company holds a buffer inventory of 500 components. The annual cost of holding one component in inventory is $2.What is the total annual cost of holding inventory of the component?
For a particular component, the re-order quantity is 6,000 units and the average inventory holding is 3,400 units.What is the level of safety inventory (in whole units)?
The following data relate to inventory item A452:
Average usage 100 units per day
Minimum usage 60 units per day
Maximum usage 130 units per day
Lead time 20-26 days
EOQ 4,000 units
What is the maximum inventory level?
Where on the graph would you read off the value for the economic order quantity?
A company uses an item of inventory as follows.
Purchase price $25 per unit
Annual demand 1,800 units
Ordering cost $32
Annual holding cost $4.50 per unit
EOQ 160 units
What is the minimum total cost assuming a discount of 2% applies to the purchase price and to holding costs on orders of 300 and over?
A wholesaler had opening inventory of 300 units of product Emm valued at $25 per unit at the beginning of January. The following receipts and sales were recorded during January.
Date 2 Jan 12 Jan 21 Jan 29 Jan
400
Issues 250 200 75
The purchase cost of receipts was $25.75 per unit. Using a weighted average method of valuation, calculate the value of closing inventory at the end of January.