Charlie's Pizza orders all of its pepperoni, olives, anchovies, and mozzarella cheese to be shipped directly from Italy. An American distributor stops by every six weeks to take orders. Because the orders are shipped directly from Italy, they take five weeks to arrive. Charlie's Pizza uses an average of 160 pounds of pepperoni each week, with a standard deviation of 26 pounds. Charlie's prides itself on offering only the best-quality ingredients and a high level of service, so it wants to ensure a 99 percent probability of not stocking out on pepperoni. Assume that the sales representative just walked in the door and there are currently 500 pounds of pepperoni in the walk-in cooler. How many pounds of pepperoni would you order? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not round Intermediate calculations. Round "z" value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) Amount of pepperoni's ordered pounds

Charlie's Pizza orders all of its pepperoni, olives, anchovies, and mozzarella cheese to be shipped directly from Italy. An American distributor stops by every six weeks to take orders. Because the orders are shipped directly from Italy, they take five weeks to arrive. Charlie's Pizza uses an average of 160 pounds of pepperoni each week, with a standard deviation of 26 pounds. Charlie's prides itself on offering only the best-quality ingredients and a high level of service, so it wants to ensure a 99 percent probability of not stocking out on pepperoni. Assume that the sales representative just walked in the door and there are currently 500 pounds of pepperoni in the walk-in cooler. How many pounds of pepperoni would you order? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given a-level. Do not round Intermediate calculations. Round "z" value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) Amount of pepperoni's ordered pounds

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

6th Edition

ISBN:9781285869681

Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

Publisher:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson

ChapterC: Cases

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Problem 5.2SC: Scenario 3 Ben Gibson, the purchasing manager at Coastal Products, was reviewing purchasing...

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Scenario 3 Ben Gibson, the purchasing manager at Coastal Products, was reviewing purchasing expenditures for packaging materials with Jeff Joyner. Ben was particularly disturbed about the amount spent on corrugated boxes purchased from Southeastern Corrugated. Ben said, I dont like the salesman from that company. He comes around here acting like he owns the place. He loves to tell us about his fancy car, house, and vacations. It seems to me he must be making too much money off of us! Jeff responded that he heard Southeastern Corrugated was going to ask for a price increase to cover the rising costs of raw material paper stock. Jeff further stated that Southeastern would probably ask for more than what was justified simply from rising paper stock costs. After the meeting, Ben decided he had heard enough. After all, he prided himself on being a results-oriented manager. There was no way he was going to allow that salesman to keep taking advantage of Coastal Products. Ben called Jeff and told him it was time to rebid the corrugated contract before Southeastern came in with a price increase request. Who did Jeff know that might be interested in the business? Jeff replied he had several companies in mind to include in the bidding process. These companies would surely come in at a lower price, partly because they used lower-grade boxes that would probably work well enough in Coastal Products process. Jeff also explained that these suppliers were not serious contenders for the business. Their purpose was to create competition with the bids. Ben told Jeff to make sure that Southeastern was well aware that these new suppliers were bidding on the contract. He also said to make sure the suppliers knew that price was going to be the determining factor in this quote, because he considered corrugated boxes to be a standard industry item. Is Ben Gibson acting legally? Is he acting ethically? Why or why not?
56 Charlie's Pizza orders all of its pepperoni, olives, anchovies, and mozzarella cheese to be shipped directly from Italy. An American distributor stops by every five weeks to take orders. Because the orders are shipped directly from Italy, they take four weeks to arrive. Charlie's Pizza uses an average of 250 pounds of pepperoni each week, with a standard deviation of 10 pounds. Charlie's prides itself on offering only the best-quality ingredients and a high level of service, so it wants to ensure a 99 percent probability of not stocking out on pepperoni. Assume that the sales representative just walked in the door and there are currently 490 pounds of pepperoni in the walk-in cooler. How many pounds of pepperoni would vou order? Note: Use Excel's NORM.S.INV( function to find the z value. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round z value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.
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Zeus Computer Chips, Inc., used to have major contracts to produce the Centrino-type chips. The market has been declining during the past three years because of the dual-core chips, which it cannot produce, so Zeus has the unpleasant task of forecasting next year. The task is unpleasant because the firm has not been able to find replacement chips for its production lines. Here is demand over the past 12 quarters: LAST THIS YEAR TWO YEARS AGO UNITS YEAR UNITS UNITS 4,785 3,495 2,696 3,475 3,210 2,078 2,705 1,695 I I I II 3,475 4,195 II II III III III IV 2,995 IV 2,375 IV Use the decomposition technique to forecast demand for the next four quarters. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Period Forecast (Units I II III IV
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Topic: Threats and controls of the disbursement cycle Lourdes works at the manufacturing company General Grains, Inc., where she serves as an inventory control employee. One of her tasks is to create orders for the necessary raw materials for manufacturing. Therefore, she periodically checks inventory levels from a computer in her office within the warehouse. Once she identifies the items that need to be restocked, she reviews the list of suppliers, selects one, and creates a purchase order from her computer, adding a new entry to the purchase orders file. Additionally, she prints a copy of the purchase order and sends it via mail to the supplier. As a final step, Lourdes sends an email to the accounts payable officer and the receptionist, providing them with a link that grants access to the purchase order from their respective computer terminals. All company computers are networked to a centralized accounting system, giving all involved parties access to the same information. When the…
Topic: Threats and controls of the disbursement cycle Lourdes works at the manufacturing company General Grains, Inc., where she serves as an inventory control employee. One of her tasks is to create orders for the necessary raw materials for manufacturing. Therefore, she periodically checks inventory levels from a computer in her office within the warehouse. Once she identifies the items that need to be restocked, she reviews the list of suppliers, selects one, and creates a purchase order from her computer, adding a new entry to the purchase orders file. Additionally, she prints a copy of the purchase order and sends it via mail to the supplier. As a final step, Lourdes sends an email to the accounts payable officer and the receptionist, providing them with a link that grants access to the purchase order from their respective computer terminals. All company computers are networked to a centralized accounting system, giving all involved parties access to the same information. When the…
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