The Big Cheese Pizza Parlor buys lots of pizza boxes. They normally pay $1.25 per box, when ordering from their supplier. Based on their annual forecast for pizza demand, their demand for boxes is estimated to be 5,000 units for the year. It costs $35 to place an order and their holding cost rate for boxes is 15% of the cost of a box per year. One day, the supplier representative tells the Big Cheese Pizza buyer that she can sell them the boxes for $1 each if they buy a minimum of 3000 at a time. Should they take the discount

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M. cotteleer electronics supplies microcomputer circuitry to a company that incorporates microprocessors into refrigerators and other home appliances. one of the components has an annual demand of 235 units, and this is constant throughout the year. carrying cost is estimated to be $1.25 per unit per year, and the ordering (setup) cost is $21 per order. a) to minimize cost, how many units should be ordered each time an order is placed? b) how many orders per year are needed with the optimal policy? c) what is the average inventory if costs are minimized? d) suppose that the ordering cost is not $21, and cotteleer has been ordering 125 units each time an order is placed. for this order policy (of q = 125) to be optimal, determine what the ordering cost would have to be.