538 PART 3 Managing Operations Problems* 14.1 You have developed the following simple product structure of items needed for your gift bag for a rush party for pro- spective pledges in your organization. You forecast 200 attendees. Assume that there is no inventory on hand of any of the items. Explode the bill of material. (Subscripts indicate the number of units required.) K1) M (2) * Note: X means the problem may be solved with POM for Windows and/or Excel OM. Many of the exercises in this chapter (14.1 through 14.16 and 14.23 through 14.27) can be done on Resource Manager for Excel, a commercial system made available by User Solutions, Inc. Access to a trial version of the software and a set of notes for the user is available at www.usersolutions.com