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David’s Delightful Kites Company (DDKC) manufactures
kites. Th e most popular is David’s Daredevil model. Demand
management has prepared forecast estimates for the next six
weeks. Beginning inventory is 15 David’s Daredevils. As the
master scheduler for DDKC, you must prepare an MPS. Your MPS
order quantity is 72 kites.

(a) Prepare the MPS using an order quantity of 72 kites.
(b) Calculate the ending inventory for each period.
(c) What is the maximum number of units held in inventory?
(d) How many MPS orders are needed?

Week
1 2
4 5
6
Forecast
20 35 50
50 45
40
Proj. Available 15
MPS
3.
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