Question

Recently, All Wong, who works at Beef International, which works with the Department of Defense's Taiwan preparations. Ms. Wong

resenting read an article in the Journal of Operations Management about time-phased MRP. As an ambitious AVP of Operations, Ali
Wong wanted to study the feasibility of implementing what she had just learned.
Step One: prepare a master schedule for one of the engine types produced by Beef International: the Ultra 2023 Model 1000
engine. This schedule indicates the number of units of the Ultra 2023 Model 1000 engine to be assembled each week during the last
12 weeks and is shown on the below.
Step Two: All Wong decided to simplify the requirements planning example by considering only two of the many components that
are needed to complete the assembly of the Ultra 2023 Model 1000 engine. These two components, the gear box and the input shaft,
are shown in the product structure diagram below. Her assistant, Steven Yeun, 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 Beef that are 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 that are 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 that are 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 she utilized the following worksheets (shown below) shown and to make the following
assumptions:
1. Twenty five gear boxes are on hand at the beginning of Week 1, and seven gear boxes are currently on order to be delivered at
the start of Week 2.
2. Fifty input shafts are on hand at the start of Week 1, and 26 are scheduled for delivery at the beginning of Week 2.
Model 1000 master schedule
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Demand 18 5 12 10 0 20 25 13 0 6 4 13

Answer 1

To prepare the master schedule for the Ultra 2023 Model 1000 engine, you need to determine the number of units to be assembled in each of the last 12 weeks based on the provided demand.

To prepare a master schedule for the Ultra 2023 Model 1000 engine, you need to indicate the number of units of the engine to be assembled each week during the last 12 weeks.

Based on the provided information, the demand for the Ultra 2023 Model 1000 engine in the respective weeks is as follows:

Week 1: Demand = 18

Week 2: Demand = 5

Week 3: Demand = 12

Week 4: Demand = 10

Week 5: Demand = 0

Week 6: Demand = 20

Week 7: Demand = 25

Week 8: Demand = 13

Week 9: Demand = 0

Week 10: Demand = 6

Week 11: Demand = 4

Week 12: Demand = 13

These numbers represent the number of units of the Ultra 2023 Model 1000 engine that need to be assembled in each respective week.