| Chapter Objectives (See related pages)
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. |
| | | Compute dollar days for a given inventory. |
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