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M93. Floral Beauty, Inc., is a large floral arrangements store located in Asheville Mall. Bridal Lilies, which are a specially created bunch of lilies for bridal bouquets, cost Floral Beauty 319 each. There is an annual demand for 22,000 Bridal Lilies. The manager of Floral Beauty has determined that the ordering cost is $85 per order, and the carrying cost, as a percentage of the unit cost, is 14%. Floral Beauty is now censidering a new supplier of Bridal Lilies. Each lily would cost only $1150, but to get this discount, Floral Beauty would have to buy shipments of 2,000 Bridal Lilies at a time. Should Floral Beauty use the new supplier and take this discount for quantity buying? a} What is the EOQ for the current supplier? bl What is the annual ordering cost for the current supplier? C] What is the holding cost per unit per year for the current supplier? d] What is the total annual inventory cost [including purchase cost] for the current supplier? e) What is the annual holding cost for the new supplier [when purchasing 2,000 each order)? 1'] What is the total annual inventory cost [including purchase cost] for the new supplier [when purchasing 2,000 each order}? g] What should Floral Beauty do? [Multiple Choice question} MBA Andre Greipel is the owner ofa small company that produces heart rate monitors. The annual demand is for 2,250 heart rate manitors, and Andre produces these devices in batches. On average, Andre can produce 140 monitors per day during the production process. Demand for monitors has been about 35 monitors per day. The cost to set up the production process is $350, and it costs And re $0.80 to carry 1 monitor in inventory for one yea r. How many monitors should Andre produce in each batch? a} What is the optimal economic production quantity? b] On average, how mam.r setups are required per year {one decimal place]? :2] What is the total cost per year [holding plus setup}