1.
Cost per purchase order (P)
Annual carrying cost per package (C)
Order quantity per purchase order (units) (Q)
Number of purchase orders per year (D
Annual carrying costs (QC
Total relevant costs of ordering and carrying inventory
2. When the ordering cost per purchase order is reduced to $30:
EOQ =
2 380,000 $30 1,378.4 packages (or 1,378 packages)
$12
=
The EOQ drops from 1,900 packages to 1,378 packages when Soothing Meadow’s ordering cost
3. As summarized below, the new Mona Lisa web-based ordering system, by lowering the
EOQ to 1,378 packages, will lower the carrying and ordering costs by $6,260. Soothing Meadow