Thomas kratzer is the purchasing manager for the headquarters of a large insurance company chain with a central inventory operation. thomas's fastest-moving inventory item has a demand of 6 comma 100 units per year. the cost of each unit is $104, and the inventory carrying cost is $9 per unit per year. the average ordering cost is $29 per order. it takes about 5 days for an order to arrive, and the demand for 1 week is 122 units. (this is a corporate operation, and there are 250 working days per year). a) what is the eoq? nothing units (round your response to two decimal places).

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.