Argue for or against for each statement below, argue for or against it. (a) a firm facing stable demand and costs (i. e., an eoq-type setting) operates with order quantity q for a year. due to an increase in the opportunity cost of capital, the per-unit annual holding cost doubles in the next year from h to 2h, and as a result the firm cuts its order size in half, .e., now orders q/2 units in each order. then it must be that the firm either did not order optimally when annual per-unit holding cost was h, or when the same cost became 2h (b) in a newsvendor-type setting (i. e., one-shot ordering problem in the presence of demand uncertainty), an increased order quantity leads to (weakly) increased expected sales. (c) in a newsvendor-type setting, the expected fraction of demand met (i. e., fraction of expected sales over expected demand) equals one minus stock-out probability.

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Shelby company produces three products: product x, product y, and product z. data concerning the three products follow (per unit): product x product y product z selling price $ 85 $ 65 $ 75 variable expenses: direct materials 25.50 19.50 5.25 labor and overhead 25.50 29.25 47.25 total variable expenses 51.00 48.75 52.50 contribution margin $ 34.00 $ 16.25 $ 22.50 contribution margin ratio 40 % 25 % 30 % demand for the company’s products is very strong, with far more orders each month than the company can produce with the available raw materials. the same material is used in each product. the material costs $8 per pound, with a maximum of 4,400 pounds available each month. required: a. compute contribution margin per pound of materials used. (round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.) contribution margin per pound product x $ product y $ product z $ b. which orders would you advise the company to accept first, those for product x, for product y, or for product z? which orders second? third? product x product y product z

Coca-cola was primarily known for its core competencies in marketing, bottling, and distributing aerated drinks. however, with the success of gatorade, coca-cola developed competencies in the development and marketing of its own sports drink, powerade. which of the following is true of coca-cola? a. it is leveraging existing core competencies to improve current market position. b. it is building new core competencies to protect and extend its current market position. c. it is redeploying and recombining existing core competencies to compete in markets of the future. d. it is targeting the chasm between the early adopter and early majority market segment.