Quantitative Analysis for Management, 13/e

Long description

The top graph, ROP is less than Q is set up as follows:

• ROP less than Q is plotted on the horizontal axis and Inventory Level is on the vertical axis.

• The origin is marked with a zero.

• A line begins about three quarters of the way up the vertical axis.

• It descends steeply down and to the right until it hits the horizontal axis.

• The line then ascends straight up, ending parallel to its starting point.

• This pattern of steep sloping descent and a vertical rise is repeated two more times, ending on the sloped descent.

• A dashed line labelled ROP extends right from about half an inch up the vertical axis until it reaches the second sloped line. From there, the line makes a ninety degree right turn and descends to the horizontal axis, ...