Model for Evaluating Vendor Proposals for Price and Lead Time

摘要

This thesis presents a personal-computer model which can be used for comparisonof vendor proposals for hardware items. It calculates the expected (or average) total annual costs associated with ordering, holding, backordering as well as the procurement costs to meet the expected annual demand for the hardware itself. It was developed for the Navy's Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts (RAMP) Program Office to demonstrate the cost savings associated with shorter production leadtimes. This thesis provides the mathematical development of the model, based on the Navy's wholesale level consumable item model, and a user's guide. The software is designed to run on LOTUS 123 or equivalent applications.