Question

WGU manufacturing receives an order for 2000 laptops. Karl, the production planner, realizes the company has no planned orders and has 1500 laptops on-hand. However, Karl has to keep a minimum of 1000 laptops on-hand at all times. Based on this information, what will the MPS reflect for the number of laptops to be produced?

Answer 1

500

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the MPS reflect for the number of laptops to be produced is shown below:

since it is mentioned in the question that there is a minimum of 1,000 laptop is on hand so here 500 should from inventory.

Therefore 500 should be produced for filling the order

Hence, the same is to be considered

Therefore the number of laptops to be produced is 500