Devry BSOP330 Week 7 Lab Assignments Chapter 16, problems 16.1, 16.3, 16.5, and 16.9 (pages 640

BSOP 330 Week
7 Lab Assignments Chapter 16, problems 16.1, 16.3, 16.5, and 16.9 (pages 640
Chapter 16,
problems 16.1, 16.3, 16.5, and 16.9 (pages 640-641)
16.1 Leblanc
Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners
for the defense industry. You have been asked by the owner, Larry Leblanc, to
reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of
analysis, you develop the following data for scanner connectors used in one
work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this connector?
Daily demand
1,000 connectors
Lead time 2 days
Safety stock day
Kanban size 500
connectors
16.3
Chris Millikan
Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kan-bans to support its telephone
switching-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the kanban for
subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed.
16.5
Discount-Mart, a
major East Coast retailer, wants to determine the economic order quantity (see
Chapter 12 for EOQ formulas) for its halogen lamps. It currently buys all
halogen lamps from Specialty Lighting Manufacturers, in Atlanta. Annual demand
is 2,000 lamps, ordering cost per order is $30, annual carrying cost per lamp
is $12.
a) What is
the EOQ?
b) What are
the total annual costs of holding and ordering (managing) this inventory?
c) How many
orders should Discount-Mart place with Specialty Lighting per year?
16.9
a) Given
the following information about a product, at Phyllis Simon’s firm, what is the
appropriate setup time?