{"id":877,"date":"2023-02-11T17:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/materials-management\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T17:15:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:15:05","slug":"materials-management","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/materials-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide Can-Openers, Inc., makes a family of two hand-operated can &nbsp;openers. The production plan is based on months. There are 4 weeks in &nbsp;this month. Opening inventory is 2000 dozen, and it is planned to &nbsp;increase that to 4000 dozen by the end of the month. The MPS is made &nbsp;using weekly periods. The forecast and projected&nbsp;available balance for &nbsp;the two models follow.<strong> The lot size for both models is 1000 dozen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Calculate the production plan<strong> (list quarterly production)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Create an MPS <strong>(List when scheduled receipts will exist; what periods?)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>What is your projected available balance in Period 3?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide Can-Openers, Inc., makes a family of two hand-operated can &nbsp;openers. The production plan is based on months. There are 4 weeks in &nbsp;this month. Opening inventory is 2000 dozen, and it is planned to &nbsp;increase that to 4000 dozen by the end of the month. The MPS is made &nbsp;using weekly periods. The forecast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[210],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}