Use the MRP techniques to analyze the current MRP approach and complete the assignment.

Analyze the optimal approach to achieve the goals of the assignment and prepare a report of no more than $2$ pages to management on your proposed MRP approach. The report should be an overview and the calculations should be shown in appendices.Analytics Exercise: An MRP Explosion$-$Brunswick Motors

Recently, Phil Harris, the production control manager at Brunswick, read an article on time$-$phased requirements planning. He was

curious about how this technique might work in scheduling Brunswick's engine assembly operations and decided to prepare an example

to illustrate the use of time$-$phased requirements planning.

Phil's first step was to prepare a master schedule for one of the engine types produced by Brunswick: the Model $1000$ engine. This

schedule indicates the number of units of the Model $1000$ engine to be assembled each week during the last $12$ weeks and is shown on

the next page. Next, Phil decided to simplify his requirements planning example by considering only two of the many components needed

to complete the assembly of the Model $1000$ engine. These two components, the gear box and the input shaft, are shown in the product

structure diagram. Phil noted that the gear box is assembled by the Subassembly Department and subsequently is sent to the main engine

assembly line. The input shaft is one of several component parts manufactured by Brunswick needed to produce a gear box subassembly.

Thus, levels $0,1,$ and $2$ are included in the product structure diagram to indicate the three manufacturing stages involved in producing an

engine: the Engine Assembly Department, the Subassembly Department, and the Machine Shop.

The manufacturing lead times required to produce the gear box and input shaft components are also indicated in the product structure

diagram. Note that two weeks are required to produce a batch of gear boxes and that all the gear boxes must be delivered to the assembly

line parts stockroom before Monday morning of the week in which they are to be used. Likewise, it takes three weeks to produce a lot of

input shafts, and all the shafts needed for the production of gear boxes in a given week must be delivered to the Subassembly Department

stockroom before Monday morning of that week.

In preparing the MRP example, Phil planned to use the worksheets shown on the next page and to make the following assumptions:

Seventeen gear boxes are on$-$hand at the beginning of Week $1,$ and five gear boxes are currently on$-$order to be delivered at the start of

Week $2.$

Forty input shafts are on$-$hand at the start of Week $1,$ and $22$ are scheduled for delivery at the beginning of Week $2.$

Model $1000$ master schedule