Variables And Order Quantity Assignment
February 27th, 2020
FlorU football programs are printed 1 week prior to each home game. Attendance averages 90,000 screaming and loyal Tators fans, of whom two-thirds usually buy the program, following a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 5000 programs. A program sells for $4 each. Unsold programs are sent to a recycling center that pays 10 cents per program. The cost to print each program is $1.
- How many programs should be ordered per game to maximize expected profit?
- What is the stockout risk for this order size?
- How sensitive is the order quantity in (a) to the following estimates?
- The standard deviation of demand
- The selling price of a program
- The cost of recycling an unsold program
Answer by considering at least 4 values of each quantity and calculating the corresponding order quantity. Draw a graph showing the effect of the above variables with order quantity on the Y-axis. Comment briefly (1-2 lines) on each graph. Get Operations Management homework help today