the design engineer advises that he has a new design for component F$.$

It won$$t be ready until sometime after week $2,$ but he wants you to give a date for the

first supplier shipment to come in$,$ and you should be ready to tell the supplier how

many to ship. Since the change is transparent to the customer, the design engineer

advises you to go ahead and use up any existing material of the model. How will

MRP help you to deal with this issue?

$6.$ Can you think of any other $$what if$$ questions that might be more easily addressed

by a systematic approach such as MRP$?$