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Inventory
Management
OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
BY
DR. ASIF MAHMOOD
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Inventory
Inventory: a stock or store of goods
Independent Demand
Independent demand
finished goods, items that are
ready to be sold
Demand is uncertain.
E.g. a computer
D(2)
Dependent Demand
A
C(2)
B(4)
E(1)
D(3)
F(2)
Types of Inventories
Raw materials & purchased parts
Partially completed goods called
work in progress
Finished-goods inventories
(manufacturing firms) or
Merchandise
(retail stores)
Functions of Inventory
Meet anticipated demand
Smooth production requirements
Decouple operations
Protect against stock-outs
Take advantage of order cycles
Help hedge against price increases
Permit operations
Take advantage of quantity discounts
Level of customer service vs costs of ordering and
carrying inventory
Two-Bin System
Two containers of inventory;
reorder when the first is empty
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Classification Systems
ABC Approach
Classifying inventory according to some
measure of importance and allocating
control efforts accordingly.
A - very important
B - mod. important
C - least important
High
Annual
$ value
of items
A
B
C
Low
Low
High
Percentage of Items
Total Cost
Total cost =
TC =
Annual
carrying
cost
Q
H
2
Annual
ordering
cost
DS
Q
Total Cost
U-Shaped
2DS
=
H
Example 1
A local distributor for a national tire company
expects to sell approximately 9,600 steel-belted
radial tires of a certain size and tread design next
year. Annual carrying costs are $16 per tire, and
ordering costs are $75. The distributor operates
288 days a year.
a.What is the EOQ? (300 tires)
b.How many times per year does the store reorder?
(32)
c. What is the length of an order cycle? (nine
working days)
Example 2
Piddling Manufacturing assembles television
sets. It purchases 3,600 black and white
pictures tubes a year at $65 each. Ordering
costs are $31, and annual carrying costs
20% of the purchase price. Compute the
optimal quantity and the total annual cost of
ordering and carrying the inventory.
Q0 = 131 picture tubes
TC = $852+$852 = $1,704
ROP =
Expected Demand
+ Safety Stock
during Lead time
Cs
Cs + Ce
Ce
Cs
Service Level
Quantity
So
Balance point
Example 15
Cs
Reorder Point
Reorder Point - When the quantity on hand of an item
drops to this amount, the item is reordered
ROP = Demand (per
Risk of
a stockout
Probability of
no stockout
Expected
demand
0
ROP
Safety
stock
Quantity
z-scale
Fixed-Order-Interval Model
Orders are placed at fixed time intervals
Order quantity for next interval?
Suppliers might encourage fixed intervals
May require only periodic checks of
inventory levels
Risk of stockout
Fill rate the percentage of demand filled
by the stock on hand
Fixed-Interval Benefits
Tight control of inventory items
Items from same supplier may yield
savings in:
Ordering
Packing
Shipping costs
Fixed-Interval Disadvantages
Requires a larger safety stock
Increases carrying cost
Costs of periodic reviews
Operations Strategy
Too much inventory
Tends to hide problems
Easier to live with problems than to
eliminate them
Costly to maintain
Wise strategy
Reduce lot sizes
Reduce safety stock