Problem 4.1. The law firm DeMaio & Associates purchases boxes of copy paper from a local office supply store. Each box costs $25 each, and the store charges $40 for each delivery, regardless of the size of the order. The law firm uses an annual holding cost rate of 30% for its inventory calculations. The office manager has used a Winters model to forecast the firms demand for paper over the next 12 months, which is provided in Table 4.5. The forecast error is so small that the manager is comfortable in assuming that these demands are deterministic and will not plan to carry any safety stock to handle demand uncertainty. Using the following heuristics, recommend an ordering policy (i.e., the timing and size of orders) to minimize the firms inventory costs over the 12-month forecast horizon. a. EOQ heuristic b. POQ heuristic c. LUC heuristic d. Silver-Meal heuristic e. PPB heuristic

Table 4.5 Monthly demand forecast for copy paper in Problem 4.1 Table 4.5 Monthly demand forecast for copy paper in Problem 4.1