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Economic Order Quantity for a delivery route
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the inventory sweet spot
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Order too often and ordering costs pile up; order too much and holding costs balloon. The Economic Order Quantity, EOQ = √(2DS/H), is the order size that minimizes their sum. At the optimum the ordering and holding costs are exactly equal — the crossing point of the two curves. The foundation of inventory management.
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EOQ707 units
Orders / year14.1
Min total cost$1414
Governing equation
Reading this result: At the EOQ the two curves cross: yearly ordering cost equals yearly holding cost, giving about 14.1 orders a year at the minimum total cost.
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