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inventory-control

GATE Mechanical Engineering · Inventory · 1989-2025

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2025 PYQ

A company uses 3000 units of a part annually. The units are priced as given in the table below. It costs Rs. 150 to place an order. Carrying costs are 40 percent of the purchase pr...

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2024 PYQ

A company orders gears in conditions identical to those considered in the economic order quantity (EOQ) model in inventory control. The annual demand is 8000 gears, the cost per or...

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2014 PYQ

A manufacturer can produce $$12000$$ bearings per day. The manufacturer received an order of $$8000$$ bearings per day from a customer. The cost of holding a bearing in stock is Rs...

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2010 PYQ

Annual demand for window frames is $$10000.$$ Each frame costs Rs. $$200$$ and ordering cost is Rs. $$300$$ per order. Inventory holding cost is Rs. $$40$$ per frame per year. The...

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2004 PYQ

A company has an annual demand of $$1000$$ units, ordering cost of Rs.$$100$$/order and carrying cost of Rs.$$100$$/unit –year. If the stock-out costs are estimated to be nearly Rs...

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1999 PYQ

In computing Wilson’s economic lot size for an item, by mistake the demand rate estimate used was $$40\% $$ higher than the tree demand rate. Due to this error in the lot size comp...

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1998 PYQ

One of the following statements about $$PRS$$ (Periodic Reordering System) is not true. Identify.

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1998 PYQ

In inventory planning, extra inventory is unnecessarily carried to the end of the planning period when using one of the following lot size decision policies:

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1989 PYQ

In an ideal inventory control system, the economic lot size for a part is $$1000.$$ If the annual demand for the part is doubled, the new economic lot size required will be:

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