Question 1: A local company located in Nizwa assembles engines for customized trekking sport utility vehicle SUV. During the year end 2019 financial review, the company is concerned with its bloated inventory cost for the past five years. The profitability of the company has been declining year on year due to the effect of the increasing inventory costs. The newly hired manager who is a mechanical engineer is tasked to look into this matter and will provide a comprehensive proposal report to the company CEO to reduce the bloating inventory cost. The current consumption or usage of parts of the assembly department is shown in Table Q1. This data shows the typical annual usage or consumption of component parts for its engines. He found out that there is big mismanagement or neglect of the company inventories. Currently, the company is ordering parts from its suppliers locally and abroad once every three months. (1) Develop an ABC analysis for the company's inventories. Show completely the results in tabular form using excel. [6] (ii) Create a PARETO analysis for the ABC analysis using excel [4] (ii) Considering your class A inventories, determine the economic order quantity EOQ using the following assumptions, zero safety stock for each class A inventories, stocking cost is 10% of the unit price, ordering cost for any class A inventories is 120 OMR per order. Determine the cost savings if EOQ is followed instead of the current ordering system of the company which is once every three months for 'class A' inventories [6] Table Q1: Annual Usage of Component Parts Part Number Annual quantity (unit) Unit cost (OMR/unit) 111D 30,974 1.00 128H 49,960 0.50 196G 7,077 22.40 205Y 2,884 270.00 2160 2,981 12.80 217J 3,446 122.40 228G 826 98.40 235D 61,204 1.80 249E 13,180 6.30 258L 2,151 62.40 261K 19,594 1.20 272J 4,684 9.00 324H 20,364 1.50 333C 2,277 15.40 3340 7,924 24.00 3525 12,799 19.20 391J 2,065 51.60 421A 4,233 9.60 432S 4,153 7.60 4365 73,594 0.25 452F 3,723 13.50 462R 3,889 16.80 463H 2,540 132.00 478L 26,932 1.20 5211 2,605 13.80 5320 1,162 144.00 610B 28,270 5.10 Question 1: A local company located in Nizwa assembles engines for customized trekking sport utility vehicle SUV. During the year end 2019 financial review, the company is concerned with its bloated inventory cost for the past five years. The profitability of the company has been declining year on year due to the effect of the increasing inventory costs. The newly hired manager who is a mechanical engineer is tasked to look into this matter and will provide a comprehensive proposal report to the company CEO to reduce the bloating inventory cost. The current consumption or usage of parts of the assembly department is shown in Table Q1. This data shows the typical annual usage or consumption of component parts for its engines. He found out that there is big mismanagement or neglect of the company inventories. Currently, the company is ordering parts from its suppliers locally and abroad once every three months. (1) Develop an ABC analysis for the company's inventories. Show completely the results in tabular form using excel. [6] (ii) Create a PARETO analysis for the ABC analysis using excel [4] (ii) Considering your class A inventories, determine the economic order quantity EOQ using the following assumptions, zero safety stock for each class A inventories, stocking cost is 10% of the unit price, ordering cost for any class A inventories is 120 OMR per order. Determine the cost savings if EOQ is followed instead of the current ordering system of the company which is once every three months for 'class A' inventories [6] Table Q1: Annual Usage of Component Parts Part Number Annual quantity (unit) Unit cost (OMR/unit) 111D 30,974 1.00 128H 49,960 0.50 196G 7,077 22.40 205Y 2,884 270.00 2160 2,981 12.80 217J 3,446 122.40 228G 826 98.40 235D 61,204 1.80 249E 13,180 6.30 258L 2,151 62.40 261K 19,594 1.20 272J 4,684 9.00 324H 20,364 1.50 333C 2,277 15.40 3340 7,924 24.00 3525 12,799 19.20 391J 2,065 51.60 421A 4,233 9.60 432S 4,153 7.60 4365 73,594 0.25 452F 3,723 13.50 462R 3,889 16.80 463H 2,540 132.00 478L 26,932 1.20 5211 2,605 13.80 5320 1,162 144.00 610B 28,270 5.10