University Drug Pharmaceuticals orders its antibiotics every two weeks (14 days) when a salesperson visits from one
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University Drug Pharmaceuticals orders its antibiotics every two weeks (14 days) when a salesperson visits from one of the pharmaceutical companies. Tetracycline is one of its most prescribed antibiotics, with average daily demand of 2,000 capsules. The standard deviation of daily demand was derived from examining prescriptions Filled over the past three months and was found to be 800 capsules. It takes Five days for the order to arrive. University Drug would like to satisfy 99 percent of the prescriptions. The salesperson just arrived, and there are currently 25,000 capsules in stock.
How many capsules should be ordered?
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Operations And Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 287
14th Edition
Authors: F. Robert Jacobs, Richard Chase
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