Ben, a 44-year-old middle manager at a well-known advertising firm, just lost his job. the company downsized due to a significant loss of clients during the last recession. although ben’s work was considered exemplary in many ways, and his staff had won awards with their creative work, the company decided to let ben go instead of another middle manager who was a minority. in a business setting, we call this occurrence

a. reverse discrimination.
b. forward discrimination.
c. affirmative action.
d. affirmative control

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?