Question: 3. FASTCHIPS Computer Company builds a computer, with the BOM shown in figure below. You are currently in week 1 , and planning the production

 3. FASTCHIPS Computer Company builds a computer, with the BOM shown

3. FASTCHIPS Computer Company builds a computer, with the BOM shown in figure below. You are currently in week 1 , and planning the production for weeks 611. The forecasted demands for the computer for weeks 611 are 300,150,200,150,220, and 140 . The starting inventory of assembled computers in week 6 will be 100, and the production manager anticipates receiving 70 in week 8 , and 150 in week 9 from the repairs department, and these can be used to satisfy demand. a) Determine the planned order release for the motherboards assuming a lot for lot rule for ordering, and you have 40 in inventory at the start of week 6 . b) There is an additional demand for 60 drives in week 7 and 30 in week 9 to be sold as spare parts. Determine the schedule of orders for the disk drives. c) Suppose that FASTCHIPS has 22,000 DRAM chips in inventory. It anticipates receiving a lot of 5000 chips in week 3 from another firm that has gone out of business. At the current time FASTCHIPS purchases the chips from 2 vendors A and B. A sells the chips for less but will not fill an order exceeding 10,000 chips per week. 1. If FASTCHIPS has an established policy of inventorying as few chips as possible, what order should it be placing with vendors A\&B over the six weeks of the planning horizon? II. FASTCHIPS has found that not all the DRAM chips purchased function properly. Past experience estimates 6% failure rates for chips purchased from vendor A, and a 2% failure rate for chips purchased from vendor B. What modification in the order would you recommend to compensate for this

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