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Study Chapters 14-17 and answer the following problems
Chapter 14, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and ERP
1. The Hunicut and Hallock Corporation makes two versions of the same basic file cabinet, the TOL
(Top-of-the-line) five drawer file cabinet and the HQ (High-quality) five drawer filing cabinet.
The TOL and HQ use the same cabinet frame and locking mechanism. The drawer assemblies are
different although both use the same drawer frame assembly. The drawer assemblies for the TOL
cabinet use a sliding assembly that requires four bearings per side whereas the HQ sliding assembly
requires only two bearings per side. (These bearings are identical for both cabinet types.) 100 TOL and
300 HQ file cabinets need to be assembled in week #10. No current stock exists.
Develop a material structure tree for the TOL and the HQ file cabinets.
2. Develop a gross material requirements plan for the TOL and HQ cabinets in the previous example.
3. Develop a net material requirements plan for the TOL and HQ file cabinets in the previous problems
assuming a current on-hand finished goods inventory of 100 TOL cabinets. The lead times are given
below.
Painting and final assembly of both HQ and TOL requires 2 weeks.
Both cabinet frames and lock assembly require 1 week for manufacturing.
Both drawer assemblies require 2 weeks for assembly.
Both sliding assemblies require 2 weeks for manufacturing.
Bearings require 2 week to arrive from the supplier.
4. If the TOL file cabinet has a gross material requirements plan as shown below, no inventory, and 2
weeks lead time is required for assembly, what are the order release dates and lot sizes when lot
sizing is determined using lot-for-lot? Use a holding cost of $2.00 and a setup cost of $20.00, and
assume no initial inventory.
Gross Material Requirements Plan
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TOL 50 100 50 100
5. If the TOL file cabinet has a gross material requirements plan as shown below, no inventory, and 2
weeks of lead time is required for assembly, what are the order release dates and lot sizes when lot
sizing is determined by EOQ (Economic Order Quantity)? Use a holding cost of $2.00 and a setup cost
of $20.00, and assume no initial inventory.
Gross Material Requirements Plan
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TOL 50 100 50 100
6. If the TOL file cabinet has a gross materials requirements plan as shown below, no inventory, and 2
weeks of lead time is required for assembly, what are the order release dates and lot size when lot
sizing is determined using PPB (part period balancing)? Use a holding cost of $2.00 and a setup cost of
$20,000, and no initial inventory.
Gross Material Requirements Plan
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TOL 50 100 50 100
Chapter 15, Short Term Scheduling
1. Assume that Susan is a sorority pledge coordinator with four jobs and only three pledges. The table
below gives the expected time for each pledge to do each job.
Job 1 Job 2 Job 3 Job 4
Alice 4 9 3 8
Barbara 7 8 2 6
Jennifer 3 4 5 7
If she wishes to minimize the time taken, to whom should she assign which job?
2. Five jobs are to be done at custom furniture shop:
Job Days Date Promised
to
Finish (in Days from
Today)
A 2 5
B 8 8
C 6 12
D 4 10
E 1 4
Compare the effect of the scheduling methods (A) FCFS (first come, first served), (B) EDD (earliest due
date), and (C) SPT (smallest processing time).
3. The following six jobs are waiting to be processed:
Job Hours Time
to Due
Process
#407 2 7
#281 8 16
#306 4 4
#429 10 17
#038 5 15
#998 12 18
Develop the appropriate sequencing for these jobs using the Critical Ratio criteria.
4. Five jobs go through two work centers, as shown below:
Job Hours Required
Varnishing Painting
(Center 1) (Center 2)
R 4 5
S 17 7
T 14 12
U 9 2
V 11 6
What is the appropriate sequence for these jobs?
Chapter 16, Just-in-Time Systems
1. Bryant Electronics produces short runs of battery-powered pocket lanterns. You have been asked to
reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of analysis you have developed
the following data for connectors used in one work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this
connector?
Daily demand 1,500 units
Production lead-time 1 day
Safety stock 1 day
Kanban size 250 units
a) Perkins Lighting wishes to employ a kanban in their new floor lamp production system. For
the floor lamp base, they have provided the following information:
Daily demand 300 units
Holding cost $20/unit/year
Order cost $10/order
Lead time 2 days
Safety stock 600 units
Find the size of the kanban and the number of kanbans required.
Chapter 17, Maintenance and Reliability
1. California Instruments, Inc., produces 3,000 computer chips per day. Three hundred are tested for a
period of 500 operating hours each. During the test, six failed: two after 50 hours, two at 100 hours,
one at 300 hours, and one at 400 hours.
Find FR(%) and FR(N).
2. If 300 of these chips are used in building a mainframe computer, how many failures of the
computer can be expected per month?
3. Find the reliability of this system:
4. Given the probabilities below, calculate the expected breakdown cost.
Number of Breakdowns Daily Frequency
0 3
1 2
2 2
3 3
Assume a cost of $10 per breakdown.
Submit your answer in pdf format on or before May 16, 2020
Online Class in HRM
1. Define the key terms of Chapters 11-16
2. Answer the Discussion Questions of Chapters 11-16
3. Analyze the application cases and answer the questions that follows of Chapters 11-16
4. Submit your answer in pdf format on or before May 16, 2020
Online Class in Administrative Office Management
1. Complete the Chapters in Administrative Office Management and answer the online quizzes.
Retype the question and then your answer and our score.
2. Submit your answer in pdf format on or before May 16, 2020
