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Explain why businesses carry inventory.

Describe the costs associated with inventory.

Compare independent and dependent demand inventory.

Calculate days-of-supply.

Explain how a reorder point system works.

Describe the contribution made by a safety stock.

Compute the reorder point for a desired service level.

Make computations for the economic order quantity models.

Describe weaknesses of the economic order quantity.

Compute the appropriate order quantity for a fixed interval, variable quantity system.

Describe the information inputs necessary to manage dependent demand inventory.

Compute planned order releases using material requirements planning.

Explain ABC analysis.

Compute dollar days for a given inventory.







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