Rita, a scheduler at Mangel-Wurzel Transport, gets a call from a regular customer needing to move of rock and soil, which Rita knows from previous experience has an average density of . Rita has available a dump truck with a capacity of and a maximum safe load of . Calculate the number of trips the dump truck will have to make to haul the customer's load away.

Emery pharmaceutical uses an unstable chemical compound that must be kept in an environment where both temperature and humidity can be controlled. emery uses 825 pounds per month of the chemical, estimates the holding cost to be 50% of the purchase price (because of spoilage), and estimates order costs to be $48 per order. the cost schedules of two suppliers are as follows: vendor 1 vendor 2 quantity price/lb quantity price/lb 1-499 $17 1-399 $17.10 500-999 $16.75 400-799 $16.85 1000+ $16.50 800-1199 $16.60 1200+ $16.25 (a) what is the economic order quantity for each supplier? (b) what quantity should be ordered and which supplier should be used? (c) the total cost for the most economic order sire is $

Modern firms increasingly rely on other firms to supply goods and services instead of doing these tasks themselves. this increased level of is leading to increased emphasis on management.

Braden’s ice cream shop is losing business. he knows that customers are no longer choosing his product because a competing product has become less expensive, yet he has refused to lower his prices. what has happened to braden’s business?