David’s Delightful Kites Company (DDKC) manufactures kites. The most popular is David’s Daredevil model. Demand management has prepared forecast estimates for the next six weeks. Beginning inventory is 15 David’s Daredevils. As the master scheduler for DDKC, you must prepare an MPS. Your MPS order quantity is 72 kites.

                            

(a) Prepare the MPS using an order quantity of 72 kites.
(b) Calculate the ending inventory for each period.
(c) What is the maximum number of units held in inventory?
(d) How many MPS orders are needed?