Abraham’s Eatery uses a lunch box supplier that has a sales rep come by weekly to order boxes. Abraham wants a 98% service level. Abraham’s average daily demand is 100 lunches, with a daily standard deviation of 17 lunches. The lead time for lunch box purchases is 4 days. If there are 400 lunch boxes when the rep comes by, how many boxes should be ordered?

Which job role belongs in the middle management level? a. president b. chief executive officer c. department manager d. chief operating officer e. vice president

You want to have $80,000 in your savings account 11 years from now, and you’re prepared to make equal annual deposits into the account at the end of each year. if the account pays 6.30 percent interest, what amount must you deposit each year? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.