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4. Suppose a store’s towel inventory is managed with a periodic review system and the vendor visits every week (reorder period = 7 days) to check the inventory and make an order. Once the order is placed, the lead time is three days. Suppose that over the reorder period plus lead time the demand for a popular item averages 80 with a standard deviation of 10. If a service level of 99% is desired and 30 units are on hand, then how many of the popular item should be ordered?

Number to order =

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40