Ordering a Fixed Number of Items Every Time an Inventory

question 111

Multiple Choice

Ordering a fixed number of items every time an inventory level falls to a predetermined point is called the __________.

• A)Inventory control number.
• B)Quality control paradox.
• C)Economic order quantity.
• D)Break-even quantity.
• E)Fixed quantity inventory.

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Definitions:

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The commercial activity of selling oil used for lubricating the engines of vehicles.

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A forecasting technique that applies weighting factors which decrease exponentially over time, used to smooth time series data.

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Exponential Smoothing

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