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Components:
Raw Materials
Work-In-Process/ Semi Finished Goods
Finished Goods
Consists of two counterbalancing parts:
It includes:
It includes:
Cost due to storing of inventory such as
Storage cost
Insurance of inventory
Deterioration of inventory
Serving cost
Opportunity cost of funds
i. Purchasing
ii. Production and
iii. Sales
GROUP C
Investment in inventory Relatively small than A
Number of items Large
Attention required Minimum
GROUP B
Stands midway between A and C categories
Deserves less attention than A but more than C
INVENTORY BREAKDOWN
Group No. of items (%) Inventory Value (%)
A 15 70
B 30 20
C 55 10
Total 100 100
EOQ Model: Technique
for determining the
optimum order quantity
that minimises the total of
its
Ordering cost and
Carrying costs
Mathematically,
EOQ = √(2AB/C)
Where,
A = Annual usage of inventory (in units)
B = Buying cost per order/ ordering cost, and
C = Carrying cost per unit
Practice Problem 1
Solution
Mathematically,
Reorder Point = Lead time in days × average daily
usage of inventory
Practice Problem 2
Solution
a. Stock Out
Associated with shortage (stock out) of inventory
b. Carrying Cost
Associated with the maintenance of inventory
DETERMINING THE SAFETY STOCK
By the trade off between stock out cost and carrying cost.
Total Cost
Cost
Carrying Cost
● Safety Stock
“Acquiring materials and manufacturing goods only as
needed to fill customer orders”.
Item No. Av. no. of units in Av. cost per unit (Rs.)
inventory
1 20,000 60.80
2 10,000 102.40
3 32,000 11.00
4 28,000 10.28
5 60,000 3.40
6 30,000 3.00
7 20,000 1.3
Answer
Category: A B C
Item: 1 and 2 3 and 4 5, 6 and 7