Texas Gladiators Case

teThe Texas Gladiators Apparel Store The Texas Gladiators won the Super Bowl final stratum. As a result, sportswear such as palpebras, sweatshirts, sweatpants, and jackets with the Gladiators logo are popular. The Gladiators operate an apparel breed outside the football game stadium. It is near a busy highway, so the store has heavy customer traffic throughout the year, not just on game days. In addition, the stadium has high school or college football and soccer games nearly every week in the fall, and baseball games in the spring and summer.The closely popular single item the stadium store sells is a release and silver baseball style hood with the Gladiators logo on it. The detonating device has an elastic headband inside it, which conforms to different head sizes. However, the store has had a unenviable time keeping the upper-case letter in pullulate, especially during the time amidst the placement and receipt of an pose. Often customers come to the store just for t he hat when it is not in stock, customers are upset, and the store management believes they tend to go to other competing stores to purchase their Gladiators clothing.To rectify this problem, the store manager, Jessica James, would like to develop an line control policy that would ensure that customers would be able to purchase the cap 99% of the time they asked for it. Jessica has accumulated some demand data for the cap for a 30-week period. The data is shown below. (Demand includes actual sales plus a record book of the times a cap has been requested but not accessible and an estimate of the number of times a customer wanted a cap when it was not available but did not ask for it. ) The store purchases the hats from a small manufacturing company in Jamaica.The shipments from Jamaica are erratic, with a acquire time of 20 days. Questions 1. In the past, Ms. James has placed an order whenever the stock got down to 150 caps. What level of service does this reorder point tick off to? 2. What would the reorder point and safety stock need to be to hit the desired service level (99%)? 3. Discuss how Jessica James might cast the order size of caps and what additional, if any, information would be needed to determine the order size. 4. Base Case Suppose that the carrying cost is $6/unit/year and ordering cost is $200/order.Assume that there are 52 weeks in a year. For this base case, compute an optimal order sum, average pedigree (when service level is 99%), yearly number of orders, total size up costs, and cycle time. 5. For the base case, construct a graph showing how annual carrying cost, ordering cost, and total cost changes due to the changes in order quantity. 6. sensitivity Analysis Construct table(s) and/or graph(s) that show how the optimal order quantity and total inventory costs change when (a) carrying cost varies from $4 to $8/unit/year and (b) ordering cost varies from $150 to $250/order.