Help Katie present the profit-leverage effect concept to RR management. How should she explain it to them so that they can truly understand the equivalent sales impact of logistics? Use the Strategic Profit Model to calculate the balance sheet, income statement and key ratio effects for each of the scenarios. Develop a recommendation for Katie to present to top management, including the aspects of the SPM she should present, and why. What potential goal conflicts would your recommendation create among merchandising, logistics, and stores? Identify two common metrics that merchandising, logistics, and the store could share that might reduce existing conflicts. How would these metrics reduce conflict?

M. cotteleer electronics supplies microcomputer circuitry to a company that incorporates microprocessors into refrigerators and other home appliances. one of the components has an annual demand of 235 units, and this is constant throughout the year. carrying cost is estimated to be $1.25 per unit per year, and the ordering (setup) cost is $21 per order. a) to minimize cost, how many units should be ordered each time an order is placed? b) how many orders per year are needed with the optimal policy? c) what is the average inventory if costs are minimized? d) suppose that the ordering cost is not $21, and cotteleer has been ordering 125 units each time an order is placed. for this order policy (of q = 125) to be optimal, determine what the ordering cost would have to be.

Your dormitory, griffingate, has appointed you central banker of its economy, which deals in the currency of wizcoins. assume that the velocity of wizcoins in griffingate is constant at 10,000 transactions per year. right now, real gdp is 1,000 wizcoins, and there are 2,000 wizcoins in existence.

In our daily interactions we can find ourselves listening to other people solely for the purpose of finding weakness in their positions so that we can formulate a convincing response. select one: true false