Consider the End Table shown below. The raw material is 1 inch by 4 inches by 6 feet long planks of oak. The product structure tree below shows that an End Table is made of one Kit that consists of all the pieces of oak needed to make one End Table, and one kit is made of two planks of oak. In the work center one, the cutting time to make one Kit is 15 minutes. In work center two, the assembly time for one End Table is 30 minutes. The purchase lead-time for oak is 1 day. The shop has just sold 15 End Tables to a customer to be delivered in the morning of Mon March 28. Assume that there is one worker in each of the two work centres, and he completes the batch before he moves it forward.

a. Assuming 8 hourworkdays, determine the manufacturing lead-time for each of the two operations for this order (round up to whole day).
b.  Enter you answers from Part a in yellow cells below.  Assuming no days off, no inventory on hand, no safety stocks, and no lot sizing, complete the following MRP tables (LFL: lot for lot):

c. The shop is off Saturdays and Sundays.  Copy the MRP tables of part b below and change it accordingly.  Hint:  You only need to change the Day headings.

d. The shop has 40 units of oak on hand.  Enter the oak table of Part c below and change it accordingly.

e. Designate 20 units of oak as safety stocks.  Enter the oak table of Part d below and change it accordingly.

f. Order Oak in lot size of 50 (instead of LFL).  Enter the oak table of Part c below and change it accordingly.

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End Table Kit Oak (2) End Table Kit Oak (2)

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